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Ulsterville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Shawangunk town. It lies in ZIP code area 12566. It stands on Verkeerder Kill. The Survey maps it on the Pine Bush quadrangle.

Ulsterville within Ulster County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ulsterville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ulsterville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

158 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Ulsterville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,183 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 40 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/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning20
Natural13
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
26 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ulsterville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Grosso MaterialsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wallkill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wallkill Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ulsterville in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 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
March 2008FloodUlsterville$10,000Heavy rainfall led to flooding across portions of Ulster county. Several roads were closed, including Route 213 and Mountain Road in Ulsterville, Ulsterville Road and Pirog Road in Ulsterville, several roads in downtown New Paltz, and Route 9 West between Saugerties and Ulster.||The flooding of fields was also reported west of County Route 7 and State Route 52 near Ulsterville, where water approached houses.||In addition, a mudslide occurred in Hurley, closing Hurley Mountain Road.
December 2023FloodUlsterville$2,000Portions of Ulsterville Road was closed from Schawagunk to Crawford.
July 1996HailUlsterville$1,000no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindUlsterville-Trees and wires were reported down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindUlsterville-A tree and wires were downed near a residence on Old Town Road in Shawangunk.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindUlsterville-Wires were reported down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindUlsterville-Trees and wires were reported down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindUlsterville-A tree fell onto powerlines.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindUlsterville-A portion of a tree was downed blocking the northbound lane of Burlingham Road at Lake Shore Drive.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindUlsterville-Tree downed on road.
March 2011FloodUlsterville-Ulsterville Road was reported to be underwater due to heavy rainfall and flooding from the Shawangunk Kill.
October 2006FloodUlsterville-On October 28, a trained spotter reported that the Shawangunk Kill and Verkeerder Kill Creeks were flooding the Town Road.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Walker Valley2.8 miles24
Crawford3.2 miles23
Red Mills3.6 miles23
Watchtower4.4 miles23
Dwaarkill4.7 miles23
Awosting4.7 miles23
Cragsmoor5.1 miles24
Rutsonville6.1 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 Q122567617The 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 968116. 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.