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Willow, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Woodstock town. It lies in ZIP code area 12495. It lies near Hoyt Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bearsville quadrangle. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Willow within Ulster County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Willow, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Willow, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

On record in Willow

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

13 surveys from 29 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

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Willow between 1993 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined16
Smoking8
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
31 July 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
13 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution146 acresNew York Forest RangersHEAVENLY VALLEY FIRE
7 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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
June 2006FloodWillow-A trained spotter reported that may streams in the vicinity of Willow were flooding.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Lake Hill2.3 miles29
Mount Tremper3.3 miles24
Shady3.7 miles29
Mount Pleasant3.8 miles24
Longyear (historical)3.8 miles24
Wittenberg3.9 miles29
Beechford4.4 miles24
Bearsville4.6 miles29

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.

Wikipedia article on WillowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39050595The 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 971334. 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.

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.