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Cascade Valley, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 13865. It stands on Cascade Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gulf Summit quadrangle.

Cascade Valley within Broome County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cascade Valley, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Cascade Valley, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

30 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cascade Valley between 2003 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection72 MAIN ST
5 July 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkWINDSOR
28 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 May 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cascade Valley: 1 producer. 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
Mills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broome 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
Gulf Summit2.8 miles17
South Windsor2.9 miles17
Damascus4.0 miles17
Edson4.7 miles16
Danville5.3 miles15
McClure5.8 miles15
Windsor6.0 miles16
Flowers6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972303. 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.