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.
Then and now
1920 to 1992The 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.


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.
- Riverside Cemeterylisted 1993 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1921 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:48000
- 1923 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Callicoon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Callicoon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 12 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 June 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 May 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Eddy | 1.3 miles | 25 | |
| Mileses | 2.5 miles | 25 | |
| Hankins | 2.7 miles | 25 | |
| Fernwood | 2.8 miles | 25 | |
| Fremont Center | 3.6 miles | 25 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 4.7 miles | 25 | |
| Acidalia | 5.4 miles | 24 | |
| Obernburg | 5.5 miles | 25 |
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.












