Wawarsing, New York

The 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.

1903 1986

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 3 records

• Cragsmoor Historic Districtlisted 1996
• O & W Railroad Station at Port Benlisted 2002
• Vernooy-Bevier Stone House and Barnslisted 2018

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.

• 1903 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1942 USGS Kerhonkson quadrangle1:24000
• 1943 USGS Kerhonkson 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 Kerhonkson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Wawarsing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 235 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Port Ben
• Brownville
• Honk Hill
• Napanoch
• Sholam
• Ellenville

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wawarsing: 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wawarsing in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968946. 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.