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Spring Glen, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wawarsing town. It lies in ZIP code area 12428. The Survey maps it on the Ellenville quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Spring Glen within Ulster County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Glen, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Spring Glen, surveyed 1904

On record in Spring Glen

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

144 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Spring Glen between 2001 and 2020, burning about 4,936 acres in total. 18 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/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning23
Natural18
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
3 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Spring Glen: 4 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Lead, 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
Phillipsort MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillipsort MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ellenville MineZinc, LeadPast ProducerVein
Ellenville MineZinc, LeadProspect
Irving Jones ProspectZinc, LeadProspect
Shawangunk MineZinc, LeadPast ProducerVein
Sun Ray Tunnel DepositZinc, LeadProspect
Ulster Mine Near Spring GlenLead, ZincPast ProducerVein
Spring Glen DepositZincProspect

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Glen in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
October 2021FloodSpring Glen-Hang Glider Road was closed at the bridge due to flooding.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSpring Glen-Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Spring Glen.
September 2011Flash FloodSpring Glen-Numerous roads were reported closed county-wide due to flooding as small streams overflowed their banks. The Pine Bush schools were closed due to the flooding. Moderate flooding occurred on the Wallkill River at Gardiner. The Gardiner river gage located on left bank 400 feet upstream from bridge on Route 44, 500 feet downstream from Shawangunk Kill, and 0.7 miles northwest of Gardiner exceeded its 13 foot flood stage around 5:30 am EST September 8th, its 16 foot moderate flood stage around 10:30 am, it crested at 17.67 feet around 4 pm, and dropped below flood stage around 3:30 am September 9th.

Every storm 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
Cragsmoor2.4 miles24
Walker Valley3.5 miles24
Ellenville4.0 miles24
Greenfield Park5.1 miles24
Crawford5.4 miles23
The Cape5.7 miles24
Napanoch6.2 miles23
Ulsterville6.3 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on Spring GlenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580522The 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 966069. 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.

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.