Arabia, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12093. The Survey maps it on the Charlotteville quadrangle.

Arabia within Schoharie County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arabia, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Arabia, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1904 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Charlotteville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Charlotteville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

69 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Arabia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined	30
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	8
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
9 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie 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
Charlotteville	1.7 miles	17
Lutheranville	3.5 miles	17
East Jefferson	3.6 miles	17
Jefferson	3.9 miles	17
Summit	4.0 miles	17
West Jefferson	4.2 miles	16
Vorman Corners	4.9 miles	17
Eminence	5.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972171. 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.