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Willowemoc, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Neversink town. It lies in ZIP code area 12758. It stands on Fall Brook. The Survey maps it on the Willowemoc quadrangle.

Willowemoc within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Willowemoc, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Willowemoc, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Willowemoc between 2003 and 2016, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
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
29 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2014Smoking3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Willowemoc: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Gaffney MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willowemoc in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 1 hail, 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWillowemoc$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2009HailWillowemoc-Hail was covering a deck.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Anderson2.1 miles24
Debruce2.9 miles24
Cooley3.8 miles22
Aden4.0 miles22
Grooville5.3 miles22
Claryville5.3 miles23
Parkston5.4 miles22
Neversink5.7 miles22

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 Q122591582The 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 971379. 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.