Cooley, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty town. It lies in ZIP code area 12768. The Survey maps it on the Liberty East quadrangle.

Cooley within Sullivan 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 Cooley, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Cooley, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Liberty East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

56 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Cooley between 2002 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	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
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 July 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 June 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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
Aden	2.0 miles	22
Anderson	2.2 miles	24
Parksville	2.9 miles	22
Debruce	3.0 miles	24
Bradley	3.7 miles	22
Willowemoc	3.8 miles	24
Parkston	4.1 miles	22
Neversink	5.1 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947365. 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.