Joshua, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Onondaga town. It lies in ZIP code area 13110. It lies near Lords Hill. The Survey maps it on the South Onondaga quadrangle.

Joshua within Onondaga 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 Joshua, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Joshua, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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 Tully quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1943 USGS South Onondaga quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS South Onondaga quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Tully quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS South Onondaga quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

136 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Joshua between 2000 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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	75
Debris and open burning	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	10
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga 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
Lords Corners	1.2 miles	27
Ironsides	1.6 miles	27
Navarino	1.8 miles	28
South Onondaga	1.9 miles	27
Nichols Corners	2.2 miles	27
Griffins Corners	2.7 miles	27
Heath Grove	3.4 miles	28
Amber	3.5 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954201. 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.