Beecherville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Orwell town. It lies in ZIP code area 13144. The Survey maps it on the Orwell quadrangle.

Beecherville within Oswego County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beecherville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Beecherville, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1903 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Beecherville between 1997 and 2016, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
15 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HALL ISLAND FIRE 2
7 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HALL ISLAND 4
5 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
1 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HALL ISLAND 3
7 July 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BIGELOW FIRE
28 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HALLS ISLAND 2
19 July 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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
Little America	1.2 miles	22
Stillwater	1.7 miles	22
New Scriba	2.3 miles	22
Noble Shores	2.8 miles	22
Chateaugay	2.9 miles	22
Pekin	3.7 miles	22
Vorea	3.7 miles	22
Pine Meadows	4.0 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972211. 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.