Index, 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 1,184 feet above sea level.

Index 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 Index, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Index, 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.

1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

57 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Index between 1997 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	34
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
29 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hyde Park	0.3 miles	19
Phoenix Mills	0.9 miles	19
Toddsville	1.6 miles	19
Hartwick Seminary	1.6 miles	19
Chase	1.7 miles	19
Bowerstown	2.6 miles	19
Perkins Crossing	2.7 miles	17
Cooperstown	3.1 miles	19

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 Index	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622289	The 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 953621. 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.