Fowlerville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Forestburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12777. It stands on Black Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Highland Lake quadrangle.

Fowlerville within Sullivan County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fowlerville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Fowlerville, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

1922 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1942 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Highland Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

76 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Fowlerville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Smoking	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
5 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2020	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	New York Forest Rangers	BAER RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Forestburg	0.6 miles	23
Merriewold Park	2.5 miles	24
Squirrels Corners	3.0 miles	24
Saint Josephs	3.5 miles	24
Hartwood	3.6 miles	24
Mohican Lake	4.0 miles	23
Hartwood Club	4.1 miles	24
Philwold	5.1 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972503. 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.