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Unionville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Neversink town. It lies in ZIP code area 12740. It stands on Red Brook. The Survey maps it on the Grahamsville quadrangle.

Unionville within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Unionville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Unionville, surveyed 1910

On record in Unionville

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Unionville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Curry1.0 miles22
Grahamsville1.0 miles22
Neversink3.0 miles22
Claryville4.3 miles23
Hasbrouck5.3 miles22
Aden5.8 miles22
Bradley6.4 miles22
Woodbourne6.9 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968234. 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.