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Barnerville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Cobleskill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12092. The Survey maps it on the Cobleskill quadrangle.

Barnerville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barnerville, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Barnerville, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Barnerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Barnerville: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sulfur, Barium-Barite. 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
Schoharie Pyrite DepositSulfur, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Cobleskill Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Howes Cave Number 6 QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cobleskill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Howe's Cave Quarry No. 19Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Howes Cave Number 6 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnerville in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBarnerville-Trees were downed on Grovers Corners Road in the town of Carlisle.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBarnerville-A tree was reported down near Barnerville 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
Bramanville1.3 miles22
Mineral Springs1.8 miles22
East Cobleskill2.2 miles22
Howes Cave2.3 miles22
Carlisle Center2.6 miles22
Greenbush3.0 miles22
Cobleskill3.2 miles22
Grovenor Corners3.6 miles22

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 Q122549196The 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 943033. 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.

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.