Edgewood, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hunter town. It lies in ZIP code area 12450. It sits by Devils Tombstone. The Survey maps it on the Hunter quadrangle.

Edgewood within Greene County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edgewood, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Edgewood, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 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.

1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1945 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1946 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Edgewood between 1992 and 2016, burning about 177 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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	13
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	3

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
26 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	DIBBLES UNATTEND CAMPFIRE
2 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
21 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
12 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
12 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
10 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lanesville	2.8 miles	21
Elka Park	3.2 miles	29
Hunter	5.1 miles	29
Tannersville	5.6 miles	29
Spruceton	6.2 miles	21
South Jewett	6.2 miles	21
Platte Clove	6.6 miles	32
Onteora Park	6.8 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949378. 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.