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Huntersland, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Middleburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12122. It lies near Laughton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Middleburgh quadrangle.

Huntersland within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Huntersland, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Huntersland, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

90 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Huntersland between 1997 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
30 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Huntersland: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Masick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Masick Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Schoharie 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
Pine Grove2.8 miles21
Hawversville4.0 miles20
Franklinton4.2 miles21
Middleburgh4.3 miles21
West Middleburgh5.2 miles21
Livingstonville5.8 miles21
Gallupville6.5 miles21
Watsonville7.0 miles22

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122568392The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 953487. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.