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Edson, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 13865. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle.

Edson within Broome County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edson, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Edson, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Edson between 1993 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Other causes2

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 June 2014Natural2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkWINDSOR
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersPANGBURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Edson: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Benjamin Franklin Graphite MineGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edson in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2010Thunderstorm WindEdson$1,000Several trees and wires were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
Flowers1.9 miles16
South Windsor2.1 miles17
Damascus3.4 miles17
Windsor3.6 miles16
Blatchley3.9 miles16
Lester4.1 miles16
Occanum4.5 miles16
Cascade Valley4.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972442. 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.

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.

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.