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Chase, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hartwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 13807. It lies near Burke Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cooperstown quadrangle.

Chase within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

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 Chase, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Chase, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

58 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Chase between 1997 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Perkins Crossing1.0 miles17
Index1.7 miles19
Hyde Park1.8 miles19
Summit Crossing2.0 miles17
Toddsville2.2 miles19
Hartwick Seminary2.2 miles19
Field Crossing2.2 miles17
Phoenix Mills2.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972310. 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.