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Tusten, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Tusten town. It lies in ZIP code area 12764. It stands on Tenmile River. The Survey maps it on the Narrowsburg quadrangle.

Tusten within Sullivan County

Then and now

1920 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tusten, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Tusten, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

On record in Tusten

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Tusten between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural5
Smoking2
Other causes1
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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
15 July 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tusten in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2002LightningTusten$200,000Lightning struck Cortese Auto Body Shop on Route 97. The lightning started an electrical fire which spread quickly to several cans of paint thinner and paint. The building was completely engulfed by the time the fire department arrived. Two people inside the building at the time of the strike got out uninjured. The shop was a total loss. A school bus, several other vehicles, tools and equipment in the shop were all destroyed.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTusten$2,000Several trees and wires were blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindTusten$2,000Power pole down.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Newieden2.7 miles23
Hunts Corner3.4 miles25
Lava4.2 miles25
Narrowsburg4.3 miles25
Yulan5.1 miles23
Minisink Ford5.5 miles26
Tylertown6.2 miles23
Cochecton Center7.1 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973169. 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.