Averys Place, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Arietta town. It lies in ZIP code area 12139. It stands on Jockeybush Outlet. The Survey maps it on the Tomany Mountain quadrangle.

Averys Place within Hamilton County

Then and now

1904 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Averys Place, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Averys Place, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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 Piseco Lake quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1908 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Morehouse Mountain quadrangle1:25000

Fires near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Averys Place between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
27 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	ANDREW LOOMIS FIRE
19 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	TROUT LAKE FIRE
15 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	REDLOUSE LAKE FIRE
10 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	AVERY FIRE
2 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	IRON LAKE
15 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	GOOD LUCK LAKE
5 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SHAKER FIRE
26 July 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	GOOD LUCK LAKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Shaker Place	2.6 miles	24
Arietta	3.9 miles	24
Powley Place	5.4 miles	24
Higgins Bay	7.9 miles	26
Rudeston	10.1 miles	26
Piseco	10.8 miles	26
Hoffmeister	10.9 miles	26
Upper Benson	12.0 miles	22

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 Q122551515

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 972183. 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.