Cowles Settlement, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cuyler town. It lies in ZIP code area 13158. The Survey maps it on the DeRuyter quadrangle.

Cowles Settlement within Cortland County

Then and now

1897 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cowles Settlement, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Cowles Settlement, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1897 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS De Ruyter quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1943 USGS Deruyter quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS De Ruyter quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Cowles Settlement between 1993 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 July 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 June 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	MORGAN HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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
Keeney	2.1 miles	20
Cuyler	3.7 miles	17
Tripoli	3.9 miles	17
Guyler Hill	5.2 miles	17
Crains Mills	6.9 miles	23
Truxton	7.6 miles	23
New Boston	8.0 miles	17
Cheningo	9.7 miles	17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122595057

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972349. 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.