Howland, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Conquest town. It lies in ZIP code area 13140. It stands on Howland Island. The Survey maps it on the Montezuma quadrangle.

Howland within Cayuga County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Howland, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Howland, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1902 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1943 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Howland between 2001 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 29 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	29
Natural	7
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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
Hard Point	1.3 miles	26
Fox Ridge	1.7 miles	26
Mosquito Point	1.9 miles	26
Spring Lake	3.2 miles	24
North Port Byron	3.2 miles	26
Willow Grove	3.3 miles	26
Conquest	3.4 miles	26
Emerson	3.9 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972633. 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.