Grand Gorge, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Roxbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 12434. It stands on Jump Brook. The Survey maps it on the Roxbury quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Grand Gorge within Delaware County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grand Gorge (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Grand Gorge (historical), 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 Hobart quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1945 USGS Roxbury quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1946 USGS Roxbury quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

51 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Grand Gorge (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
20 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
20 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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
Grand Gorge	0.8 miles	21
Hardscrabble	4.5 miles	17
Hubbell Corners	4.6 miles	17
Roxbury	5.9 miles	17
Stamford	6.6 miles	17
Vega	7.2 miles	17
West Settlement	7.4 miles	17
Hobart	8.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951481. 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.