Gilmantown, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Wells town. It lies in ZIP code area 12190. It lies near Cutknife Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Wells quadrangle.

Gilmantown within Hamilton County

Then and now

1907 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gilmantown, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Gilmantown, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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.

1907 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Wells quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Wells quadrangle1:25000

Fires near this place

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Gilmantown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 376 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 5 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	15
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	12
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
7 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SPECULATOR FIRE
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	ALGONQUIN DR
11 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
1 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Wells	3.2 miles	26
Blackbridge	4.7 miles	26
Speculator	4.8 miles	26
Griffin	5.5 miles	23
Lake Pleasant	5.6 miles	26
Pumpkin Hollow	6.7 miles	26
Girards Sugarbush	6.8 miles	23
Hope	10.0 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972538. 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.