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Conesville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Conesville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12076. It stands on Bear Kill. The Survey maps it on the Gilboa quadrangle.

Conesville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Conesville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Conesville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Conesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 July 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie 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 Conesville: 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
Wawaywando PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conesville in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindConesville$55,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindConesville-Trees were downed across the Town of Conesville.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindConesville-Wires were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindConesville-Two trees were downed in Gilboa.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
West Conesville2.5 miles22
Manorkill2.9 miles21
Flat Creek3.2 miles22
Gilboa3.8 miles22
Mackey4.8 miles22
Broome Center5.4 miles21
Owlsville5.8 miles22
Bates6.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947266. 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.