East Durham, New York
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Durham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12423. It stands on Cornwallville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Freehold quadrangle.
Then and now
1893 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in East Durham
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Weldon Houselisted 2000
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1943 USGS Freehold quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Freehold quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
149 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of East Durham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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 | 76 |
| Debris and open burning | 40 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 11 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 8 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Durham in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunside | 2.4 miles | 21 | |
| Hervey Street | 2.5 miles | 23 | |
| Freehold | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Durso Corner | 3.0 miles | 23 | |
| Norton Hill | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| South Durham | 3.1 miles | 21 | |
| Cornwallville | 3.3 miles | 23 | |
| Oak Hill | 4.0 miles | 22 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949061. 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.








