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East Masonville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Masonville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13839. It lies near Couse Hill. The Survey maps it on the Unadilla quadrangle.

East Masonville within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 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 Masonville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of East Masonville, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of East Masonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkSIDNEY CENTER
9 June 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Masonville: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Howe Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unadilla Concrete Prods S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Masonville QuarryClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Masonville QuarryClayProducer
Unadilla QuarryClayProducer
Unadilla Quarry and MillClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Tacoma2.3 miles15
Ivanhoe2.5 miles15
Youngs2.6 miles19
Sidney Center3.1 miles19
South Unadilla3.9 miles19
Masonville4.2 miles15
Trout Creek4.3 miles15
Franklin Depot5.1 miles16

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 Q122559982The 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 949165. 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.