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Fly Creek, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otsego town. It lies in ZIP code area 13337. It stands on Fly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooperstown quadrangle.

Fly Creek within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fly Creek, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fly Creek, surveyed 1907

On record in Fly Creek

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Fly Creek between 1995 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fly Creek in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 5 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
September 1996Thunderstorm WindFly Creek$10,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFly Creek$5,000Trees and wires were blown down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFly Creek$5,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFly Creek$2,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindFly Creek$500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down.

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Pail Shop Corners0.4 miles19
Oaksville1.2 miles17
Cattown1.3 miles17
Toddsville2.5 miles19
Wileytown2.9 miles17
Taylortown3.1 miles16
Summit Crossing3.3 miles17
Cooperstown3.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950329. 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.

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.