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Westtown, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Minisink town. It lies in ZIP code area 10998. It lies near Laurel Hill. The Survey maps it on the Unionville quadrangle.

Westtown within Orange County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westtown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Westtown, surveyed 1906

On record in Westtown

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Westtown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 171 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined110
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning17
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Westtown: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium. 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
Edenville Ilmenite DepositIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Mount Salem QuarryStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1899
Pine Island QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pine Island Quarry and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Westtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Westtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Westtown Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Westtown Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westtown in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020LightningWesttown$10,000Fire Department sent to Laurel Hill Drive for burning smell due to house struck by lightning.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWesttown$3,000Trees down on wires near Jacobs Road and Route 1.
July 2023Flash FloodWesttown-Fire department reports water entering the basement of a home.
July 2013HailWesttown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Waterloo Mills2.2 miles22
Millsburg2.6 miles22
Unionville2.7 miles22
Johnson2.7 miles22
Castle High Estates2.8 miles19
Gardnerville2.9 miles24
Bushville2.9 miles22
Logtown3.1 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970944. 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.