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Wiccopee, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in East Fishkill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12533. It stands on Wiccopee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hopewell Junction quadrangle.

Wiccopee within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wiccopee, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Wiccopee, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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

428 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 428 fires within 5 miles of Wiccopee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined175
Arson/incendiarism67
Smoking54
Debris and open burning38
Natural36
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony13
Power generation/transmission/distribution12

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
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Wiccopee: 27 past producers, 8 producers, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Clay. 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
Chalmers Fahnestock Uranium ClaimsUraniumProspect
Probably Borrow Pit of Limestone Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast Producer
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stormville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hj-022ClayPast ProducerClay
Clay Pit No. Hj-022ClayPast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-025StonePast Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-025StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiccopee in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2021Flash FloodWiccopee$300,000Several roads were closed in the town of East Fishkill due to flash flooding. The County Executive declared a state of emergency and restricted all non-essential travel due to the flooding.
July 2014LightningWiccopee$25,000A house was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm on East Hook Road in Wiccopee. The house caught on fire as a result of the lightning strike.
August 2019HailWiccopee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Brinckerhoff1.2 miles35
Lomala1.5 miles35
Swartoutville1.7 miles35
Fishkill2.8 miles36
East Fishkill2.9 miles35
Shenandoah3.1 miles35
Birchwood Park3.4 miles36
Hopewell Junction3.7 miles35

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.

Wikidata item Q122571837The 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 971206. 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.