BlockFish House, New York
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Northampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12025. The Survey maps it on the Northville quadrangle.
Then and now
1899 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Fish House
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 1 record
- Godfrey Shew Houselisted 2006
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 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.
- 1899 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1945 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
101 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Fish House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 256 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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 | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 22 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 July 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 31 July 2012 | Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benedict | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| North Broadalbin | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Gorthey Corners | 3.6 miles | 22 | |
| Union Mills | 3.8 miles | 22 | |
| Sweets Crossing | 4.6 miles | 23 | |
| Cranberry Creek | 4.7 miles | 23 | |
| Carpenters Corners | 5.2 miles | 23 | |
| Steele Corners | 5.5 miles | 22 |
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 Q122547810 | 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 950143. 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.