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Kecks Center, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Johnstown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12095. The Survey maps it on the Peck Lake quadrangle.

Kecks Center within Fulton County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kecks Center, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Kecks Center, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

188 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Kecks Center between 1993 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined96
Arson/incendiarism28
Natural19
Debris and open burning15
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kecks Center: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Twin Cities Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kecks Center in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindKecks Center-A large tree limb was downed on a power line resulting in smoke coming from the line.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindKecks Center-Trees were downed at the intersection of County Highway 116 and Route 67 at Kecks Center in Johnstown.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindKecks Center-A large pine tree was downed blocking Red School House Road.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindKecks Center-Trees were blown down on wires.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindKecks Center-Fifteen trees were uprooted.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Eppie Corners0.8 miles21
Sammonsville1.8 miles21
Cork2.6 miles21
Garoga4.0 miles21
Rockwood4.3 miles21
Ephratah4.6 miles21
Johnstown4.7 miles22
Meco5.1 miles21

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 Q122551905The 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 954422. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.