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Ketchumville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Newark Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 13811. The Survey maps it on the Lisle quadrangle.

Ketchumville within Tioga County

Then and now

1903 to 1992

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 Ketchumville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Ketchumville, surveyed 1903

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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Ketchumville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined43
Debris and open burning20
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tioga 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
New Connecticut2.6 miles21
Wilson Creek2.7 miles21
East Berkshire3.4 miles21
Berkshire5.2 miles21
East Newark5.4 miles29
Newark Valley5.6 miles29
East Richford7.5 miles21
West Newark7.6 miles29

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 Q122542284The 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 954561. 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.