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Buckley Hollow, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Smithville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13830. It lies near Painter Hill. The Survey maps it on the Tyner quadrangle.

Buckley Hollow within Chenango County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Buckley Hollow, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Buckley Hollow, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Buckley Hollow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 1999Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
19 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 July 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 June 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango 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 Buckley Hollow: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Du Boise PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wehrli PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whaley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chenango 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
Tyner2.1 miles18
South Oxford2.2 miles16
Brisben2.7 miles17
Dibble Corner3.3 miles18
Smithville Center3.7 miles18
Adams Corner4.0 miles18
Oxford4.4 miles16
Corbin Corner4.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972275. 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.