Center Valley, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cherry Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 13320. The Survey maps it on the Sprout Brook quadrangle.

Center Valley within Otsego County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Center Valley, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Center Valley, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:25000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Center Valley between 1999 and 2017, burning about 95 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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	23
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 June 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 June 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Weber Corners	3.4 miles	17
South Valley	3.7 miles	17
Cherry Valley	4.4 miles	17
Roseboom	4.9 miles	18
Pleasant Brook	5.0 miles	18
Gothicville	5.9 miles	17
Maple Valley	6.8 miles	18
Furnaceville	7.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946202. 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.