East Koy, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pike town. It lies in ZIP code area 14536. The Survey maps it on the Portageville quadrangle.

East Koy within Wyoming County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 Koy, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of East Koy, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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 Portage quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Portageville quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Portageville quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Portageville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

61 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of East Koy between 2002 and 2017, burning about 79 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined	36
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 June 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2006	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 Wyoming 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
Griffith Corners	2.6 miles	17
Pike	2.8 miles	17
Lamont	3.5 miles	18
Portageville	4.0 miles	18
Wing	6.1 miles	17
Castile	6.6 miles	17
Hardys	6.7 miles	17
Gainesville	7.1 miles	17

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 Q122589787

The 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 949149. 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.