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Hartwick Seminary, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hartwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 13326. It stands on Black Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cooperstown quadrangle.

Hartwick Seminary within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hartwick Seminary, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Hartwick Seminary, surveyed 1907

On record in Hartwick Seminary

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

60 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Hartwick Seminary between 1997 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartwick Seminary in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHartwick Seminary$50,000no account filed
August 2023Flash FloodHartwick Seminary$3,000County dispatch reported multiple roads were flooded in this area.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHartwick Seminary-A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds measured at 52 knots.

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Hyde Park1.3 miles19
Index1.6 miles19
Phoenix Mills2.0 miles19
Clintonville2.0 miles19
Chase2.2 miles19
Perkins Crossing3.1 miles17
Toddsville3.1 miles19
Milford3.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952325. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.