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East Cobleskill, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Cobleskill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12157. It stands on Punch Kill. The Survey maps it on the Cobleskill quadrangle.

East Cobleskill within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Cobleskill, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of East Cobleskill, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

104 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of East Cobleskill between 1999 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of East Cobleskill: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Strontium, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schoharie Pyrite DepositSulfur, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Schoharie Strontianite OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrence
Cobleskill Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Howes Cave Number 6 QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cobleskill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Howe's Cave Quarry No. 19Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Howes Cave Number 6 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Bramanville1.0 miles22
Howes Cave1.2 miles22
Barnerville2.2 miles22
Mineral Springs3.2 miles22
Greenbush3.4 miles22
Central Bridge3.7 miles22
Grovenor Corners3.8 miles22
Old Central Bridge3.8 miles22

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 Q122557140The 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 949044. 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.