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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.

Goose Island within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The 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 sheet of Goose Island, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Goose Island, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 29 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

131 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined51
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism21
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
19 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
North Argyle2.4 miles29
Belcher2.6 miles29
West Hebron3.0 miles27
Argyle3.8 miles27
Cossayuna4.9 miles27
Adamsville5.3 miles29
Durkeetown5.8 miles27
East Hartford5.9 miles29

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 IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5584066The 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.