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West Greenville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12083. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle.

West Greenville within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Greenville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West Greenville, surveyed 1893

On record in West Greenville

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 4 records

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

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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of West Greenville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Debris and open burning40
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural11
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
19 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
Greenville0.9 miles22
Norton Hill1.5 miles22
East Greenville2.6 miles25
Greenville Center2.7 miles22
Newrys3.2 miles25
Freehold3.7 miles21
Place Corners4.0 miles25
East Durham4.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 969241. 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.