Barney Mills, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Union town. It lies in ZIP code area 14877. It lies near Irish Hill. The Survey maps it on the Rexville quadrangle.

Barney Mills within Steuben County

Then and now

1926 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barney Mills, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Barney Mills, surveyed 1926

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1926 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Rexville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Barney Mills between 1992 and 2016, burning about 20 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 May 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
29 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben 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
West Union	1.1 miles	17
McGraws	1.8 miles	17
Rexville	2.4 miles	17
Rough and Ready	3.0 miles	17
Greenwood	4.2 miles	18
West Greenwood	4.3 miles	18
Wileyville	4.5 miles	17
Young Hickory	5.8 miles	17

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 Q122593461

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 972199. 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.