Hampshire, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jasper town. It lies in ZIP code area 14855. It stands on Peak Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Canisteo quadrangle.

Hampshire within Steuben County

Then and now

1926 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hampshire, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Hampshire, surveyed 1926

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1926 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS South Canisteo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Hampshire between 1992 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
18 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 June 2007	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 Steuben 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
South Canisteo	2.6 miles	17
Jasper	3.0 miles	17
South Cameron	5.0 miles	20
Bennetts	5.4 miles	17
Hedgesville	6.2 miles	20
Adrian	6.3 miles	21
Cameron	6.7 miles	20
Greenwood	6.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972587. 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.