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Starbuckville, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Chester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12817. It stands on Chester Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chestertown quadrangle.

Starbuckville within Warren County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Starbuckville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Starbuckville, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Starbuckville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 2007Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2001Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Starbuckville: 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Mica, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Chestertown OccurrenceMica, Feldspar, QuartzPast Producer1897, 1922
Owens Property DepositIronOccurrence
Potterville ProspectGraphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, MicaOccurrenceGraphite, Phlogopite, Pyrite
Town of Chester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, Quartz, FeldsparOccurrence1911, 1975
Willis Brown Property DepositFeldspar, MicaProspect
Chestertown ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starbuckville in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindStarbuckville-Trees were downed across power lines.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindStarbuckville-A tree was reported down on Landon Hill Road in Chestertown due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Brant Lake1.5 miles29
South Horicon1.6 miles26
Chestertown1.9 miles26
Pottersville4.6 miles26
Darrowsville4.6 miles25
Riverbank5.5 miles30
Adirondack6.3 miles27
Riparius6.4 miles26

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 Q122545077The 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 966250. 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.