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Tilly Foster, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Southeast town. It lies in ZIP code area 10512. It lies near Mount Pisgah. The Survey maps it on the Lake Carmel quadrangle.

Tilly Foster within Putnam County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

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 Tilly Foster, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Tilly Foster, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

422 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 422 fires within 5 miles of Tilly Foster between 2000 and 2020, burning about 401 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 59 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/undetermined190
Arson/incendiarism59
Smoking44
Debris and open burning38
Natural36
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Other causes3

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
9 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Tilly Foster: 18 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, Arsenic, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Brewster MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Croton Magnetite Iron MinesIron, CopperPast Producer1880
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Gk-013StonePast Producer
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Sulfur, Iron, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Copper, Iron, SulfurPast Producer
Tilly FosterMolybdenumOccurrenceMagnetite, Molybdenite
Hobby Pyritiferous OreIron, SulfurProspect
Hobby Pyritiferous Ore OpeningIron, SulfurPast ProducerUnknown
Putman Co. As MineArsenic, Iron, SulfurPast ProducerVein
Towners Pyrite DepositSulfurOccurrence

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tilly Foster in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTilly Foster$1,000A tree was reported down on Fairway Drive near Field Corners, NY.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Brewster Heights1.1 miles35
Fosters Corners1.3 miles35
Carmel Hills1.4 miles35
Drewville Heights1.8 miles35
Carmel1.9 miles35
Dykemans2.0 miles37
Brewster2.2 miles37
Field Corners2.2 miles35

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 Q122594360The 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 967528. 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.