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Anaquassacook, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Jackson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12816. It lies near Peaked Rock. The Survey maps it on the Shushan quadrangle.

Anaquassacook within Washington County

Then and now

1895 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Anaquassacook, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Anaquassacook, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

On record in Anaquassacook

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Anaquassacook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1

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
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2006Debris and open burning1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Anaquassacook: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead. 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
White Creek Pb MineLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Eagleville0.7 miles29
Shushan1.9 miles29
The Plains2.9 miles29
Ash Grove3.1 miles29
Pumpkin Hook4.0 miles29
Ravenwood Estates4.3 miles29
Rexleigh4.7 miles27
Cambridge4.9 miles27

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 Q122543138The 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 942451. 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.