Hardscrabble, 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 12474. The Survey maps it on the Roxbury quadrangle.

Hardscrabble 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 Hardscrabble, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Hardscrabble, 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

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Hardscrabble between 1997 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 was 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	17
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
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
30 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 June 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 June 2008	Natural	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
Hubbell Corners	1.9 miles	17
Roxbury	2.7 miles	17
West Settlement	3.0 miles	17
Grand Gorge (historical)	4.5 miles	17
Grand Gorge	5.3 miles	21
Vega	5.3 miles	17
Hobart	5.9 miles	16
Stamford	6.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972597. 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.