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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.

Yulan within Sullivan County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Yulan, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Yulan, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

117 since 1992

Regional 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 burning37
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking3
Fireworks1

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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007HailYulan-no account filed

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
Eldred2.6 miles23
Barryville3.3 miles26
Minisink Ford3.6 miles26
Highland Lake4.3 miles23
Tusten5.1 miles25
Newieden5.4 miles23
Handsome Eddy5.9 miles26
Mohican Lake6.1 miles23

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 YulanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16904200The 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.