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Itaska, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Barker town. It lies in ZIP code area 13862. It stands on Bull Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitney Point quadrangle.

Itaska within Broome County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Itaska, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Itaska, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Itaska between 1992 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 July 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Itaska in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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
September 2018Flash FloodItaska$35,000Water was flowing over Route 79 and surrounding homes. Evacuations of several locations was needed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindItaska$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires near 1832 Route 11.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindItaska$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree down on a house through the roof at 4 South Street.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindItaska$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree and wires near 468 Conklin Hill Road.
June 2011Flash FloodItaska$10,000Heavy rain caused flash flooding in several locations. Near Itaska, water and rocks crossed Barker Road, and over Route 79 near Bull Creek Road. In Chenango Forks, flooding occurred along Cloverdale Road, with swift water rescues taking place. Also, a mudslide was reported in the town of Chenango near Chenango Forks.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindItaska$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree across Route 79.
July 2013Flash FloodItaska$5,000Route 79 was closed due to water flowing over roadway.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindItaska$5,000no account filed
November 2022Thunderstorm WindItaska$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and powerlines on Route 79.
August 2008HailItaska-Hail was observed on I-81 north of Binghamton.

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
Hydeville2.6 miles17
Triangle3.2 miles17
Whitney Point3.8 miles17
Meadowbrooke Estates3.9 miles17
Dorchester Estates4.4 miles17
Castle Creek5.0 miles23
Chenango Forks5.4 miles24
Glen Aubrey6.0 miles20

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 Q122550038The 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 953853. 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.