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Bloomerville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Avoca town. It lies in ZIP code area 14809. It stands on Twelvemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Avoca quadrangle.

Bloomerville within Steuben County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bloomerville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bloomerville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

78 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Bloomerville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning17
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bloomerville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
B.Schultz No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Cohocton BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schoonover PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wallace0.7 miles19
Avoca2.5 miles19
Greenville2.8 miles20
Howard5.3 miles21
Cohocton5.5 miles22
Jobs Corner5.6 miles20
Haskinville5.6 miles20
Marshalls6.2 miles17

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 Q122558329The 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 944284. 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.