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Flat Creek, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Root town. It lies in ZIP code area 13317. The Survey maps it on the Sharon Springs quadrangle.

Flat Creek within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Flat Creek, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Flat Creek, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

44 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Flat Creek between 1995 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
24 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 July 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Flat Creek: 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Barium-Barite, Sulfur, Garnet. 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
Flat Creek DepositLead, Barium-Barite, SulfurOccurrence
Spraker's Basin DepositGarnet, QuartzOccurrence
Coddington BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Root PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weaver's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Root Center1.9 miles20
Currytown2.2 miles20
Browns Hollow2.5 miles18
Lykers2.7 miles20
Mapletown3.1 miles18
Rural Grove3.2 miles20
Sprakers3.4 miles18
Waterville4.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950237. 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.