Bates, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Broome town. It lies in ZIP code area 12469. It lies near Scott Patent Hill. The Survey maps it on the Livingstonville quadrangle.

Bates within Schoharie County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bates, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Bates, surveyed 1901

On record in Bates

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.

Bates Christian Churchlisted 2023 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1945 USGS Livingstonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1946 USGS Livingstonville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Livingstonville quadrangle1:24000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Bates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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	17
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 July 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Livingstonville	2.9 miles	21
Broome Center	4.2 miles	21
Manorkill	4.7 miles	21
Hawversville	5.0 miles	20
Franklinton	5.4 miles	21
Mackey	5.8 miles	22
Pine Grove	5.9 miles	21
Conesville	6.8 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943157. 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.