Gothicville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Decatur town. It lies in ZIP code area 12197. It lies near Elliot Hill. The Survey maps it on the South Valley quadrangle.

Gothicville within Otsego 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 Gothicville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Gothicville, 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
1943 USGS South Valley quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS South Valley 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

54 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Gothicville between 2002 and 2019, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 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	29
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 June 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Furnaceville	1.7 miles	17
South Valley	2.5 miles	17
Decatur	2.6 miles	17
Calcutta	2.9 miles	17
Weber Corners	3.5 miles	17
East Worcester	3.6 miles	17
Maple Valley	3.8 miles	18
Pleasant Brook	4.8 miles	18

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.

Wikidata item Q122554535

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 951413. 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.