Goose Island, New York
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Argyle town. It lies in ZIP code area 12809. It lies near Todd Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1893 to 1989The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1895 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Mettawee quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1944 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:25000
- 1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
131 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Goose Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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 | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 23 August 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 22 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Argyle | 2.4 miles | 29 | |
| Belcher | 2.6 miles | 29 | |
| West Hebron | 3.0 miles | 27 | |
| Argyle | 3.8 miles | 27 | |
| Cossayuna | 4.9 miles | 27 | |
| Adamsville | 5.3 miles | 29 | |
| Durkeetown | 5.8 miles | 27 | |
| East Hartford | 5.9 miles | 29 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Goose Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5584066 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972554. 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.















