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Tabasco, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rochester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12446. It stands on Gray Brook. The Survey maps it on the Kerhonkson quadrangle.

Tabasco within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tabasco, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Tabasco, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

204 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Tabasco between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,281 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined134
Arson/incendiarism28
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabasco in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 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
May 1997Thunderstorm WindTabasco$4,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTabasco-A tree and wires were downed across a road in the Hamlet of Tabasco.

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
Liebhardt1.5 miles23
Cherrytown2.2 miles23
Mombaccus2.3 miles23
Palentown2.4 miles26
Riggsville2.6 miles23
Samsonville2.8 miles26
Fantinekill3.1 miles23
Mettacahonts3.4 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973135. 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.