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Dorloo, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Seward town. It lies in ZIP code area 12043. The Survey maps it on the Richmondville quadrangle.

Dorloo within Schoharie 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 Dorloo, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Dorloo, 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.

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Dorloo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 134 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 June 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dorloo in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindDorloo-A tree was down on Route 165.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDorloo-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Seward0.9 miles17
Gardnersville2.3 miles17
Janesville2.4 miles17
Clove3.0 miles17
Engleville3.2 miles20
Hyndsville3.8 miles17
West Richmondville4.2 miles17
Sharon Center5.0 miles18

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 Q122570496The 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 948586. 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.