Decatur, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Decatur town. It lies in ZIP code area 12197. The Survey maps it on the South Valley quadrangle.

Decatur within Otsego County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Decatur, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Decatur, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1904 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS South Valley quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS South Valley quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Decatur between 1995 and 2019, burning about 41 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	18
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	2
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
27 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gothicville	2.6 miles	17
Calcutta	2.7 miles	17
Furnaceville	2.9 miles	17
East Worcester	3.2 miles	17
Maple Valley	3.2 miles	18
Westford	3.9 miles	18
Worcester	3.9 miles	19
South Valley	4.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 948156. 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.