Arthur, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mexico town. It lies in ZIP code area 13114. The Survey maps it on the Mexico quadrangle.

Arthur within Oswego County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arthur, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Arthur, surveyed 1905

On record in Arthur

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 1 record

Arthur Tavernlisted 1991

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1905 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

77 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Arthur between 2001 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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	44
Arson/incendiarism	19
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Smoking	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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
North Church Corner	1.1 miles	22
Texas	1.2 miles	12
Mexico	2.7 miles	18
Ramona Beach	3.4 miles	22
Demster Beach	3.5 miles	12
Demster	3.7 miles	21
New Haven	3.7 miles	21
Hickory Grove	4.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 969325. 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.