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Argusville, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Carlisle town. It lies in ZIP code area 13459. The Survey maps it on the Sharon Springs quadrangle.

Argusville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Argusville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Argusville, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

56 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Argusville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning10
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Argusville in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindArgusville-A tree and wires were downed on Gilberts Corner Road in Sharon Springs due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gilbert Corners1.8 miles18
Sharon2.2 miles18
Little York2.6 miles20
Sharon Center3.7 miles18
Staleyville4.5 miles18
Carlisle4.5 miles20
Sharon Springs5.2 miles18
Gardnersville5.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942549. 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.

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.