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Hoben, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bolivar town. It lies in ZIP code area 14708. It lies near Gadsby Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Allentown quadrangle.

Hoben within Allegany County

Then and now

1925 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hoben, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hoben, surveyed 1925

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hoben between 1995 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
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
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 May 1995Arson/incendiarism25 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 May 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 145 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 145 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hoben between 1917 and 1967: 111 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Charles Robins; John New; Robert Dickerman, D. B. Ward, Dilger, William C. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Xylaria Hill, not of this specimenXylaria Hill ex Schrank, 17891917E. E. Honey
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1926John GreelyFord Cr. [Brook]
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii Girard, 18501926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191926John GreelyAllen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201926John GreelyMarsh Cr.
A photograph of the species Exoglossum maxillingua, not of this specimenExoglossum maxillingua (Lesueur, 1817)1926John GreelyMarsh Cr.
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1926John GreelyMarsh Cr.
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1926John GreelyMarsh Cr.
A photograph of the species Margariscus margarita, not of this specimenMargariscus margarita (Cope, 1867)1926John GreelyRedwater Cr.
A photograph of the species Notropis gilberti, not of this specimenNotropis gilberti Jordan & Meek, 18851926John GreelyKnight Cr.

All 145 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
South Bolivar1.1 miles14
Alma2.1 miles14
Pikeville4.3 miles14
Sawyer4.5 miles14
Vosburg4.7 miles14
Kossuth4.9 miles15
Allentown5.7 miles14
Bolivar5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972620. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.