Dorchester Estates, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Triangle town. It lies in ZIP code area 13862. It stands on Page Brook. The Survey maps it on the Whitney Point quadrangle.

Dorchester Estates within Broome 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 Dorchester Estates, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Dorchester Estates, 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 Greene quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Whitney Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Whitney Point quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Dorchester Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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	40
Debris and open burning	32
Natural	7
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
2 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
20 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 July 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 June 2007	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 Broome County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dorchester Estates: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Harry Pease No.1 Well	Salt	Prospect

Every working recorded in Broome 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
Whitney Point	1.1 miles	17
Meadowbrooke Estates	1.5 miles	17
Lisle	2.0 miles	20
Upper Lisle	3.6 miles	15
Manningville	4.3 miles	20
Hydeville	4.4 miles	17
Itaska	4.4 miles	17
Triangle	4.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2490758. 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.