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Cardtown, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pittsfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13411. The Survey maps it on the Edmeston quadrangle.

Cardtown within Otsego 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 Cardtown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cardtown, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

61 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Cardtown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning12
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
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 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2020Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
22 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 June 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cardtown: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Schmidts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cardtown in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCardtown$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires on Route 51.

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Pittsfield1.9 miles17
Amblers Crossing2.2 miles17
Edmeston3.7 miles16
Garrattsville3.9 miles16
Stetsonville4.0 miles16
Hoboken4.2 miles17
Robinson Corners4.7 miles16
South Edmeston4.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972298. 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.