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Shultis Corners, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Saugerties town. It lies in ZIP code area 12498. It lies near Lewis Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle.

Shultis Corners within Ulster County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shultis Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Shultis Corners, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

274 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Shultis Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 296 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 26 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined127
Debris and open burning32
Smoking30
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks4
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersNICHOLSON FIRE
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Shultis Corners: 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Marbletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mt. MarionBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Stony Hollow Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Duffy's PitClayProducer
Mount Marion Clay PitClayPast Producer
Mount Marion Sandstone QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mount Marion Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Sawyer Shale PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stony Hollow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Saugerties Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Daisy1.1 miles29
High Woods2.2 miles29
Zena2.4 miles29
Woodstock2.7 miles29
Fish Creek3.1 miles29
Ruby3.6 miles29
Sweet Meadows3.7 miles30
Centerville3.8 miles29

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122573369The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965187. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.