Gardnersville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Seward town. It lies in ZIP code area 12043. It lies near Pine Hill. The Survey maps it on the Richmondville quadrangle.

Gardnersville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gardnersville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Gardnersville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1904 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1944 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Gardnersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	35
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie 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
Janesville	1.2 miles	17
Seward	1.4 miles	17
Dorloo	2.3 miles	17
Hyndsville	2.9 miles	17
Clove	2.9 miles	17
Sharon	3.7 miles	18
Sharon Center	3.9 miles	18
Engleville	4.1 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950901. 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.