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West Settlement, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ashland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12468. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle.

West Settlement within Greene County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 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 Settlement, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West Settlement, surveyed 1901

On record in West Settlement

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of West Settlement between 1992 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 July 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

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
Red Falls1.9 miles21
Ashland2.7 miles21
Prattsville3.6 miles21
North Lexington4.1 miles21
North Settlement4.2 miles21
West Jewett5.2 miles21
Mosquito Point5.2 miles21
Jewett5.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973250. 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.