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Tristates, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Port Jervis City. It lies in ZIP code area 12771. It stands on Neversink River. The Survey maps it on the Port Jervis South quadrangle.

Tristates within Orange County

Then and now

1906 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tristates, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Tristates, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

On record in Tristates

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

265 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Tristates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 15 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/undetermined117
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Natural15
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Other causes5

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2016Other causesunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tristates: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mount Salem QuarryStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1899
Delaware Valley Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Port Jervis Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sandford Nearpass QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1868, 1900
William Nearpass QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1868, 1900

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tristates in 13 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
April 2013Thunderstorm WindTristates$1,000,000A large tree limb was blocking Canal Street at Hamilton Street.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindTristates$25,000Numerous trees down into wires, almost entire city without power.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindTristates$10,000Tree down on a house on Hammond Street.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindTristates$3,000Police report of wires down at the intersection of Orange and Canal.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTristates$1,000Tree reported down on US 6 eastbound in Port Jervis.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTristates$1,000Large tree branch down on Sussex Street between North Broome Street and East Main Street.
July 2023Flash FloodTristates-Multiple cars stranded near Pike Street and Ball Street in Port Jervis. One person Stranded in car.
July 2023Flash FloodTristates-Fire department dispatched to assist in pumping water out of a flooded basement on Pennsylvania Ave.
September 2023Flash FloodTristates-Road closures in and around town due to flooding.
June 2020HailTristates-Video of hail most of which were the size of quarters with some the size of ping pong balls.
August 2014Flash FloodTristates-Main Street in Port Jervis was flooded and impassable. The bridge over the Neversink River was closed to traffic due to the flood waters.
July 2013Flash FloodTristates-The intersection of Reservoir Ave. and Orange St. in Port Jervis was closed due to flooding.
June 2009HailTristates-Nickel size hail was reported in Port Jervis.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Port Jervis1.1 miles23
Germantown1.8 miles23
Greenville3.5 miles22
Sparrow Bush3.5 miles23
Smith Corners3.6 miles22
Logtown4.6 miles22
Shin Hollow4.7 miles19
Huguenot4.8 miles23

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 Q122568687The 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 967847. 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.