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Fish Creek Station, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Verona town. It lies in ZIP code area 13162. It stands on Wood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sylvan Beach quadrangle.

Fish Creek Station within Oneida County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fish Creek Station, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fish Creek Station, surveyed 1895

On record in Fish Creek Station

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

70 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Fish Creek Station between 1996 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined29
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Fish Creek Station: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Coonrod PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Sylvan Beach0.9 miles26
Verona Beach0.9 miles26
Edgewater Beach1.8 miles26
Fish Creek Landing1.8 miles26
North Bay3.0 miles26
Vienna3.0 miles26
Dumbarton3.6 miles26
Higginsville3.7 miles26

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 Q122596004The 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 950138. 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.