Jewett Center, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jewett town. It lies in ZIP code area 12442. It lies near Mill Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle.

Jewett Center within Greene County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jewett Center, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Jewett Center, surveyed 1900

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.

1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1946 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Jewett Center between 1993 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	23
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3
Smoking	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
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 May 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 Greene 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
West Jewett	2.0 miles	21
Jewett	2.5 miles	21
Lexington	2.6 miles	21
Spruceton	3.1 miles	21
South Jewett	3.4 miles	21
West Kill	4.1 miles	21
North Lexington	4.5 miles	21
Mosquito Point	4.6 miles	21

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 Q122568173

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 972666. 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.