Demster, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in New Haven town. It lies in ZIP code area 13126. It stands on Catfish Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle.

Demster within Oswego County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

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 Demster, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Demster, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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.

1900 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Demster between 2001 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Demster: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Scriba Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Scriba Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Scriba Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego 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
Pleasant Point Crossing	0.9 miles	21
New Haven	1.1 miles	21
Hickory Grove	1.2 miles	12
Demster Beach	1.3 miles	12
Shore Oaks	2.6 miles	12
South New Haven	3.4 miles	21
North Scriba	3.6 miles	22
Arthur	3.7 miles	18

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 Q122594803

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 970068. 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.