BlockUlster Heights, New York
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wawarsing town. It lies in ZIP code area 12428. It stands on Botsford Brook. The Survey maps it on the Rondout Reservoir quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1986The 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.
On record in Ulster Heights
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 1 record
Ulster Heights Synagoguelisted 2001
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1942 USGS Lackawack quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS Lackawack quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Rondout Reservior quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Rondout Reservoir quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
126 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Ulster Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined | 67 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1995 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 24 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 19 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 August 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.7 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 30 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cape | 3.2 miles | 24 | |
| Greenfield Park | 3.3 miles | 24 | |
| Dairyland | 3.4 miles | 24 | |
| Lackawack | 3.6 miles | 24 | |
| Sholam | 5.1 miles | 24 | |
| Honk Hill | 5.6 miles | 24 | |
| Brownville | 5.8 miles | 24 | |
| Ellenville | 6.1 miles | 24 |
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 Q122556062 | The 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 968112. 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.