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Springtown, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Paltz town. It lies in ZIP code area 12561. It stands on Kleine Kill. The Survey maps it on the Rosendale quadrangle.

Springtown within Ulster County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Springtown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Springtown, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

236 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Springtown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined98
Smoking42
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism31
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springtown in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
December 2023FloodSpringtown$1,000Water was reported over Horsenden Road near New Paltz.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSpringtown-Tree and wires were downed on Horsenden Road in New Paltz.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSpringtown-A few trees and wires were downed near the Town of New Paltz.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSpringtown-Tree and wires were downed on Huguenot Street.
July 2013Flash FloodSpringtown-Springtown Road near New Paltz was closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.

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
Butterville2.2 miles28
New Paltz2.4 miles25
Plutarch3.2 miles28
Ohioville3.3 miles25
Tillson3.4 miles28
Dashville3.5 miles28
High Falls3.7 miles27
Mohonk Lake3.8 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966104. 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.