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Youngsville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Callicoon town. It lies in ZIP code area 12791. It stands on Panther Rock Brook. The Survey maps it on the Jeffersonville quadrangle. It stands 1,197 feet above sea level.

Youngsville within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Youngsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Youngsville, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

78 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Youngsville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Briscoe3.1 miles21
Jeffersonville3.2 miles21
White Sulphur Springs3.2 miles22
Callicoon Center3.7 miles21
Kohlertown3.9 miles21
Shandelee4.9 miles22
Loomis5.4 miles22
North Branch5.6 miles21

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 YoungsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740111The 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 971862. 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.