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Keeney, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cuyler town. It lies in ZIP code area 13158. It lies near Morgan Hill. The Survey maps it on the DeRuyter quadrangle.

Keeney within Cortland County

Then and now

1897 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Keeney, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Keeney, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Keeney between 1993 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 June 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMORGAN HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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
Cowles Settlement2.1 miles20
Tripoli3.2 miles17
Cuyler3.4 miles17
Guyler Hill5.5 miles17
Crains Mills5.6 miles23
Truxton6.1 miles23
New Boston7.9 miles17
Cummings Crossing8.2 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954434. 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.