Sleightsburg, New York

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1993

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridgelisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
• Rondout-West Strand Historic Districtlisted 1979 · 0.5 miles away
• Ponckhockie Union Chapellisted 1980 · 0.7 miles away
• Kingston/Rondout 2 Lighthouselisted 1979 · 0.8 miles away
• Cordts Mansionlisted 2007 · 0.9 miles away
• Moses Yeomans Houselisted 2009 · 0.9 miles away
• West Strand Historic Districtlisted 1974 · 0.4 miles away
• K. WHITTELSEY (Tugboat)listed 2002 · 0.5 miles away
• Chestnut Street Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1898 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:48000
• 1939 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1963 USGS Kingston East quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 480 fires within 5 miles of Sleightsburg between 1997 and 2020, burning about 468 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 44 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Connelly
• Ponck Hockie
• Rondout
• Port Ewen
• East Kingston
• Hillside

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Sleightsburg: 9 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Ulster County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965406. 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.