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Guideboard, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brookfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13485. It stands on West Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brookfield quadrangle.

Guideboard within Madison County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Guideboard, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Guideboard, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Guideboard between 1994 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 August 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Guideboard: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Belden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Letts No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasProspect

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Brookfield1.8 miles17
West Brookfield2.8 miles17
Moscow Hill3.1 miles17
North Brookfield3.5 miles17
South Brookfield4.4 miles17
Leonardsville5.2 miles17
Hubbardsville5.9 miles17
East Hamilton6.1 miles17

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 Q122572225The 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 972577. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.