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Basket, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Fremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12760. It stands on Basket Creek. The Survey maps it on the Callicoon quadrangle.

Basket within Sullivan County

Then and now

1920 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Basket, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Basket, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

On record in Basket

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

28 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Basket between 2005 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined12
Natural5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 June 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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
Long Eddy1.3 miles25
Mileses2.5 miles25
Hankins2.7 miles25
Fernwood2.8 miles25
Fremont Center3.6 miles25
Pleasant Valley4.7 miles25
Acidalia5.4 miles24
Obernburg5.5 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972202. 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.