BlockEast McDonough, New York
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in McDonough town. It lies in ZIP code area 13830. The Survey maps it on the Tyner quadrangle.
Then and now
1902 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1902 USGS Coventry quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Tyner quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Tyner quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
46 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of East McDonough between 1993 and 2018, burning about 58 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 5 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 2 August 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 17 July 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 11 July 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 6 June 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 22 June 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corbin Corner | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Preston | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| McDonough | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| East Pharsalia | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Preston Center | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Tyner | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Dibble Corner | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Adams Corner | 5.4 miles | 18 |
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 Q122564600 | 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 972424. 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.