BlockEast Steamburg, New York
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hector town. It lies in ZIP code area 14886. The Survey maps it on the Lodi quadrangle.
Then and now
1902 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 84 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
8 surveys from 23 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 Ovid quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1942 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of East Steamburg between 1995 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 9 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 | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 18 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 August 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Green Mountain National Forest | not named |
| 20 August 1995 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Green Mountain National Forest | not named |
| 15 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Searsburg | 1.9 miles | 23 | |
| Spaulding Corner | 2.3 miles | 23 | |
| Logan | 4.2 miles | 30 | |
| Reynoldsville | 4.3 miles | 30 | |
| Perry City | 4.8 miles | 35 | |
| Valois | 5.6 miles | 24 | |
| Hector | 5.7 miles | 23 | |
| Mecklenburg | 5.9 miles | 35 |
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 Q122590959 | 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 974009. 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.