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South Easton, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Easton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12185. It lies near Beadle Hill. The Survey maps it on the Schaghticoke quadrangle.

South Easton within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Easton, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of South Easton, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of South Easton between 1993 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning22
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Easton in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Easton-A tree was down on wires along Meeting House Road in the Town of Easton.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Easton-A tree and wires were downed on Cooke Hollow Road and Meeting House Road in the Town of Easton.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Easton-A power outage occurred in the Town of Easton off Gifford Road due to a large tree down onto a telephone pole.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Easton-Trees and wires were reported down at the intersection of South Cambridge Road and Beadle Hill Road in South Easton due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Barkers Grove1.7 miles30
Easton1.9 miles30
West Cambridge2.3 miles29
North Easton2.6 miles26
Lee2.6 miles29
South Cambridge2.6 miles29
Fly Summit3.0 miles27
Crandall Corners3.1 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965740. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.