BlockBig Indian, New York
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Shandaken town. It lies in ZIP code area 12410. It stands on Birch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shandaken quadrangle.
Then and now
1900 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1900 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 24 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.
- 1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1946 USGS Shandaken quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Shandaken quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Shandaken quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Big Indian between 1993 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 3 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 | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 13 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 16 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 9 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | CHANTREL FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Indian in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Indian | - | Trees and wires were reported down in Big Indian as a result of thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Big Indian | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943904. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.