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Walker Valley, New York

24 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 Stony Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ellenville quadrangle. 1,269 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Walker Valley 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 Walker Valley, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Walker Valley, surveyed 1904

Population over time

2 figures

Walker Valley grew from 853 to 1,269 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010853
20201,269+416 (+49%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

163 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Walker Valley between 2000 and 2020, burning about 4,931 acres in total. 16 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/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning18
Natural16
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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
4 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Walker Valley: 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Shawangunk MineZinc, LeadPast ProducerVein
Shawangunk MineCopper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Irving Jones ProspectZinc, LeadProspect
Phillipsort MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillipsort MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ulster Mine Near Spring GlenLead, ZincPast ProducerVein
Spring Glen DepositZincProspect

Every working 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
Ulsterville2.8 miles22
Cragsmoor2.8 miles24
Crawford3.0 miles23
Spring Glen3.5 miles24
Awosting5.2 miles23
Red Mills5.6 miles23
Ellenville5.8 miles24
Dwaarkill6.1 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.

Wikipedia article on Walker ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461728The 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 973199. 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.