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East Pharsalia, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pharsalia town. It lies in ZIP code area 13801. It lies near Berry Hill. The Survey maps it on the East Pharsalia quadrangle. It stands 1,591 feet above sea level.

East Pharsalia within Chenango County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The 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 sheet of East Pharsalia, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of East Pharsalia, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

52 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of East Pharsalia between 1997 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1

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
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBALSAM POND 1
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
31 July 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Pharsalia in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Flash FloodEast Pharsalia$15,000Flood inundation up to a residence along Geneganstslet Creek was occurring near the intersection of Hurlburt Road and Pike Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Pharsalia$10,000Multiple trees were blown down on County Route 7. Poles with wires were blown down on County Route 10.
August 2023HailEast Pharsalia-no account filed
May 2013HailEast Pharsalia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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
North Pharsalia3.6 miles19
Pharsalia3.8 miles17
East McDonough4.5 miles18
McDonough4.9 miles17
Kirk5.1 miles19
Preston5.2 miles19
Northwest Corners5.8 miles16
Pitcher Springs6.2 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on East PharsaliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740500The 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 949204. 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.