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Sweet Meadows, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Kingston town. It lies in ZIP code area 12401. It lies near Jockey Hill. The Survey maps it on the Kingston West quadrangle.

Sweet Meadows within Ulster County

Then and now

1901 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sweet Meadows, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Sweet Meadows, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

507 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 507 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 583 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined228
Smoking118
Arson/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning30
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony16
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Fireworks2
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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Sweet Meadows: 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General. 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
Mt. MarionBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Stony Hollow Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Duffy's PitClayProducer
Marbletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Marbletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mount Marion Clay PitClayPast Producer
Mount Marion Sandstone QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mount Marion Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Sawyer Shale PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stony Hollow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Jockey Hill0.8 miles30
Halihan Hill1.3 miles30
Sawkill1.4 miles30
Zena1.8 miles29
Ruby2.2 miles29
Stony Hollow2.5 miles30
West Hurley2.9 miles30
High Woods3.4 miles29

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 Q122551173The 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 966922. 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.