Bovina, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bovina town. It lies in ZIP code area 13740. It lies near Crescent Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hobart quadrangle.

Bovina within Delaware County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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 Bovina, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Bovina, surveyed 1904

On record in Bovina

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 2 records

Burns Family Farmlisted 2007
Walter Coulter Homestead Farmlisted 2025

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1904 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1945 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1946 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Bovina between 1997 and 2017, burning about 39 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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	8
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2
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
2 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
19 May 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
10 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 April 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 April 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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
Bovina Center	3.1 miles	16
New Kingston	4.5 miles	19
South Kortright	5.0 miles	16
Lake Delaware	5.7 miles	16
West Settlement	6.1 miles	17
Bloomville	6.1 miles	16
Andes	6.4 miles	16
Hobart	7.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972250. 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.