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Hyde Park, 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 Oaks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooperstown quadrangle. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Hyde Park 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 Hyde Park, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Hyde Park, surveyed 1907

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

62 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Hyde Park between 1997 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 4 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 use5
Natural4
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 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hyde Park in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindHyde Park$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on a vehicle.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindHyde Park$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree across from the store.
July 2012HailHyde Park-no account filed

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
Index0.3 miles19
Phoenix Mills0.9 miles19
Hartwick Seminary1.3 miles19
Chase1.8 miles19
Toddsville1.9 miles19
Bowerstown2.7 miles19
Perkins Crossing2.8 miles17
Clintonville3.2 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on Hyde ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740555The 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 953560. 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.