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Tylertown, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cochecton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12720. It stands on Lily Brook. The Survey maps it on the Lake Huntington quadrangle.

Tylertown within Sullivan County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tylertown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Tylertown, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Tylertown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural8
Other causes6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
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
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire 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
6 July 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tylertown in 1 storm report in 2007: 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTylertown$1,000Trees were blown 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
Cochecton Center2.6 miles23
Newieden3.4 miles23
Lava3.8 miles25
Odell4.0 miles23
Lake Huntington4.6 miles23
Black Lake4.8 miles23
Hunts Corner5.0 miles25
Bethel5.7 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973173. 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.