Bleecker Center, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Bleecker town. It lies in ZIP code area 12078. The Survey maps it on the Caroga Lake quadrangle.

Bleecker Center within Fulton County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bleecker Center, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Bleecker Center, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

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 Gloversville quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Caroga Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Caroga Lake quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Caroga Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Bleecker Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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	10
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
17 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	STEWART LAKE
1 July 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
Peters Corners	1.1 miles	22
Lindsley Corners	2.0 miles	22
Bleecker	2.6 miles	22
Caroga Lake	4.7 miles	22
West Bush	4.7 miles	21
Wheelerville	4.9 miles	22
Jackson Summit	6.0 miles	22
Smiths Corners	6.0 miles	21

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 Q122541930

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 972241. 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.