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Cowlesville, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bennington town. It lies in ZIP code area 14037. It stands on Red Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cowlesville quadrangle.

Cowlesville within Wyoming County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cowlesville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Cowlesville, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

122 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Cowlesville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cowlesville in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 2 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 2014Thunderstorm WindCowlesville$25,000Thunderstorms winds downed powerlines in Cowlesville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCowlesville$8,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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
Folsomdale1.6 miles15
Bennington3.8 miles15
Harris Corners5.3 miles15
North Sheldon5.7 miles15
Persons Corners6.6 miles15
East Bennington7.1 miles16
Dutch Hollow7.4 miles15
Sheldon7.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947602. 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.

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.