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Spruceton, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lexington town. It lies in ZIP code area 12492. It stands on Herdman Brook. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle.

Spruceton within Greene County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spruceton, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Spruceton, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Spruceton between 1997 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 April 1998Debris and open burning16 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spruceton in 2 storm reports in 2020: 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSpruceton-A tree was downed in the town of Lexington.
December 2020FloodSpruceton-Hunter Brook washed mud, rock, and debris onto the end of Spruceton Road, blocking access to a popular hiking trailhead.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Jewett Center3.1 miles21
South Jewett3.5 miles21
West Kill4.3 miles21
Lexington4.5 miles21
Hunter4.9 miles29
Lanesville5.0 miles21
West Jewett5.1 miles21
Jewett5.4 miles21

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 Q122547022The 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 973111. 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.