Amblers Crossing, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Edmeston town. It lies in ZIP code area 13335. The Survey maps it on the New Berlin North quadrangle.

Amblers Crossing within Otsego County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Amblers Crossing, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Amblers Crossing, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1910 USGS New Berlin quadrangle1:62500
1912 USGS New Berlin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS New Berlin North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS New Berlin North quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Amblers Crossing between 1995 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined	34
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
29 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 June 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Amblers Crossing: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	C.C.Lobdell No.1 Well	Salt	Prospect
	Unnamed Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego 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
Edmeston	2.0 miles	16
Cardtown	2.2 miles	16
Pittsfield	2.6 miles	17
South Edmeston	3.0 miles	17
Robinson Corners	3.8 miles	16
Hoboken	4.5 miles	17
West Burlington	4.6 miles	16
Garrattsville	5.1 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122567162

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 972166. 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.