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Zena, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Woodstock town. It lies in ZIP code area 12401. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle. 1,038 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Zena within Ulster County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Zena, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Zena, surveyed 1892

Population over time

2 figures

Zena grew from 1,031 to 1,038 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,031
20201,038+7 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

322 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Zena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 414 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 42 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/undetermined156
Arson/incendiarism42
Smoking39
Debris and open burning23
Natural20
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use14
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Fireworks2

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersNICHOLSON FIRE
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Zena: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Duffy's PitClayProducer
Stony Hollow Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Marbletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Marbletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sawyer Shale PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stony Hollow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ulster QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zena in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 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
December 2023FloodZena$10,000Portions of John Joy Road were closed due to flooding.
August 2011Flash FloodZena-Water flowed over Zena Road in Woodstock due to 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
Sweet Meadows1.8 miles30
West Hurley2.0 miles30
Shultis Corners2.4 miles29
Jockey Hill2.4 miles30
Daisy2.8 miles29
Woodstock2.8 miles29
Glenford2.8 miles29
Montoma3.0 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 ZenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459973The 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 971869. 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.