Upper Mongaup, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lumberland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12737. It lies near Tink Hill. The Survey maps it on the Pond Eddy quadrangle.

Upper Mongaup within Sullivan County

Then and now

1913 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Upper Mongaup, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Upper Mongaup, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

1913 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1944 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
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 Pond Eddy quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Pond Eddy quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Pond Eddy quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

129 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Upper Mongaup between 1998 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	11
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
21 September 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2020	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	New York Forest Rangers	BAER RD FIRE
31 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mongaup	2.3 miles	26
Knights Eddy	2.5 miles	26
Glen Spey	3.0 miles	26
Pond Eddy	3.3 miles	26
Hartwood Club	3.9 miles	24
Mohican Lake	5.0 miles	23
Forestburg	6.4 miles	23
Hartwood	6.4 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 Q122560707

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 968284. 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.