East Township, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Knox town. It lies in ZIP code area 12009. The Survey maps it on the Altamont quadrangle.
Then and now
1900 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 85 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
9 surveys from 22 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.
- 1900 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1944 USGS Altamont quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1946 USGS Altamont quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
105 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of East Township between 2001 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 16 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 | 61 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 29 September 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 21 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 16 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 14 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 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:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,035 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,035 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Township between 1863 and 1975: 554 Animalia, 235 Fungi, 228 Plantae, 11 Protozoa, 7 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Heller, Alexander, Charles Paul, Andrus, R. E. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cephalozia media Lindb. | 1898 | Charles H. Peck | near Albany |
![]() | Coniothyrium Corda, 1840 | 1899 | not recorded | |
![]() | Corticium evolvens (Fr.) Fr. | 1900 | unknown | Altamont |
![]() | Barbilophozia barbata (Schmidel ex Schreb.) Loeske | 1863 | C. F. Austin | In Mountain localities |
![]() | Amblystegium radicale (P.Beauv.) Mitt. | 1864 | C. F. Austin | |
![]() | Bazzania trilobata (L.) Gray | 1865 | Miss R. Waterbury | |
![]() | Hylocomium splendens (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1865 | not recorded | |
![]() | Orthotrichum strangulatum P.Beauv. | 1868 | Coe F. Austin | Indian Ladder. |
![]() | Chlosyne nycteis (Doubleday) | 1870 | not recorded | |
![]() | Cryptospora cinctula (Cooke & Peck) Sacc. | 1875 | C. H. Peck | |
![]() | Alnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd. | 1876 | Peck, C.H. | America septentr.: Albany - New York - ad amenta feminca Alni serrulatae Ait. |
![]() | Enargia decolor Walker, 1859 | 1876 | J. S. Bailey |
All 1,035 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of East Township: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knox Quarry | Flagstone | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knox | 2.1 miles | 22 | |
| West Township | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| Altamont | 3.6 miles | 22 | |
| Thompsons Lake | 5.0 miles | 22 | |
| Dunnsville | 5.4 miles | 22 | |
| Berne | 5.4 miles | 21 | |
| East Berne | 5.9 miles | 21 | |
| Meadowdale | 6.5 miles | 30 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949256. 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.




















