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Garrattsville, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Lisbon town. It lies in ZIP code area 13315. It lies near Wooley Hill. The Survey maps it on the Edmeston quadrangle.

Garrattsville within Otsego County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Garrattsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Garrattsville, surveyed 1910

On record in Garrattsville

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Garrattsville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 35 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined21
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
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
30 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 1999Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 June 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Garrattsville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Schmidts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrattsville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindGarrattsville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and powerlines.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGarrattsville$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto CR16.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGarrattsville-Strong winds occurred at Gilbert Lake.

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
Welcome2.2 miles16
Stetsonville3.5 miles16
Cardtown3.9 miles16
New Lisbon4.2 miles16
West Burlington4.2 miles16
Robinson Corners4.2 miles16
Patent4.3 miles17
Lena4.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950921. 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.

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.