BlockBlackbridge, New York
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Wells town. It lies in ZIP code area 12190. It stands on Devorse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cathead Mountain quadrangle.
Then and now
1907 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1907 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 26 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.
- 1907 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Three Ponds Mountain quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Three Ponds Mountain quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
19 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Blackbridge between 2002 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | FALLS POND FIRE |
| 11 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 July 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | CAMP SITE 51 |
| 30 June 2016 | Natural | 2.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | COULOMBE CREEK |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wells | 2.5 miles | 26 | |
| Pumpkin Hollow | 3.5 miles | 26 | |
| Gilmantown | 4.7 miles | 26 | |
| Hope | 6.3 miles | 23 | |
| Lake Pleasant | 8.4 miles | 26 | |
| Upper Benson | 8.4 miles | 22 | |
| Benson | 8.5 miles | 26 | |
| Griffin | 8.8 miles | 23 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122597778 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972238. 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.