Handsome Eddy, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lumberland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12770. The Survey maps it on the Shohola quadrangle.

Handsome Eddy within Sullivan County

Then and now

1913 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Handsome Eddy, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Handsome Eddy, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

1913 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1944 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

85 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Handsome Eddy between 2001 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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
Debris and open burning	45
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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
7 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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
Barryville	2.6 miles	26
Pond Eddy	3.6 miles	26
Glen Spey	4.8 miles	26
Minisink Ford	5.3 miles	26
Knights Eddy	5.7 miles	26
Eldred	5.8 miles	23
Highland Lake	5.9 miles	23
Yulan	5.9 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952153. 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.