Yulan, New York
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Highland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12792. It stands on Deep Hollow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Eldred quadrangle. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1922 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1922 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Eldred quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
117 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Yulan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 26 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 28 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 12 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 6 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 4 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yulan in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Hail | Yulan | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eldred | 2.6 miles | 23 | |
| Barryville | 3.3 miles | 26 | |
| Minisink Ford | 3.6 miles | 26 | |
| Highland Lake | 4.3 miles | 23 | |
| Tusten | 5.1 miles | 25 | |
| Newieden | 5.4 miles | 23 | |
| Handsome Eddy | 5.9 miles | 26 | |
| Mohican Lake | 6.1 miles | 23 |
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 Yulan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16904200 | The 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 971864. 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.











