New York, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50238. The Survey maps it on the Corydon quadrangle. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

New York within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1934 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1934 USGS Humeston quadrangle1:48000
1937 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of New York between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,474 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
6 May 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	CHARITON VOL FD
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2018	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 March 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1,200 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Millerton	2.4 miles	12
Bethelhem	2.6 miles	11
Ovia	3.1 miles	12
Bridgeport	6.9 miles	11
Confidence	7.2 miles	11
Corydon	7.2 miles	12
Cambria	7.6 miles	12
Peoria	7.7 miles	12

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 New York	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22059120	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 459496. 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.