BlockBefore

Byersville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in West Sparta town. It lies in ZIP code area 14517. The Survey maps it on the Ossian quadrangle.

Byersville within Livingston County

Then and now

1905 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Byersville, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Byersville, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

130 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Byersville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined81
Natural18
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2020Recreation and ceremony2.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2010Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byersville in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindByersville$15,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Coffee Hill Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindByersville$1,000Trees down at the intersection of Redmond and Green Roads.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Westview2.6 miles20
West Sparta3.2 miles21
Woodsville3.2 miles24
Cumminsville3.9 miles24
Ossian4.3 miles20
Kysorville4.5 miles21
Dansville5.3 miles24
Tuscarora5.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945400. 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.

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.