Big Creek, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 14843. It stands on Tuttle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canisteo quadrangle.

Big Creek within Steuben County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Big Creek, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Big Creek, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1915 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Canisteo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Big Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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	51
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
26 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	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
Butcher Corner	1.3 miles	21
Jobs Corner	2.3 miles	20
Fremont	3.3 miles	21
Howard	3.5 miles	21
Haskinville	3.8 miles	20
North Hornell	4.8 miles	21
Greenville	5.2 miles	20
Hornell	5.4 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972231. 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.