Dunbar, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 13865. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle.

Dunbar within Broome County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dunbar, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Dunbar, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1905 USGS Nineveh quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

101 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Dunbar between 1993 and 2020, burning about 199 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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	43
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
30 August 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	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

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
Occanum	2.1 miles	16
West Windsor	2.4 miles	24
West Colesville	2.7 miles	14
Lester	3.4 miles	16
Brookvale	3.6 miles	24
Ouaquaga	4.1 miles	14
Sanitaria Springs	4.2 miles	24
Windsor	4.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972397. 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.