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Bleecker, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bleecker town. It lies in ZIP code area 12078. The Survey maps it on the Gloversville quadrangle.

Bleecker within Fulton 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 Bleecker, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Bleecker, surveyed 1903

On record in Bleecker

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Bleecker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
15 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bleecker: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crystal Grove Diamond MineGemstoneProducer1955

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bleecker in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBleecker$5,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBleecker$1,000no account filed
October 2010FloodBleecker-County Route 112 in Bleecker was reported closed due to flooding.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBleecker-An emergency Manager reported that trees were blown down in Bleecker.
May 2017HailBleecker-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bleecker Center2.6 miles22
West Bush2.6 miles21
Lindsley Corners3.7 miles22
Peters Corners3.7 miles22
Smiths Corners3.9 miles21
Kingsboro3.9 miles22
Dennies Crossing4.4 miles22
Meco4.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944234. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.