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Stilesville, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Deposit town. It lies in ZIP code area 13754. It stands on Cold Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deposit quadrangle.

Stilesville within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stilesville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Stilesville, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Stilesville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
25 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 May 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stilesville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Willis Hankins BluestoneFlagstonePast Producer
Willis Hawkins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Hambletville1.2 miles15
China4.4 miles15
Barbourville4.5 miles15
Hale Eddy5.4 miles15
Kelsey5.9 miles16
Upper Barbourville6.0 miles15
Arctic7.3 miles15
Apex8.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966421. 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.