Kirk, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Plymouth town. It lies in ZIP code area 13844. It stands on Cookhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Pharsalia quadrangle.

Kirk within Chenango County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kirk, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Kirk, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1903 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS East Pharsalia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1943 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS East Pharsalia quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Kirk between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	21
Debris and open burning	16
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BALSAM POND 1
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango 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
Plymouth	2.2 miles	19
North Pharsalia	3.2 miles	19
Beaver Meadow	4.3 miles	19
South Plymouth	4.4 miles	19
Preston	5.0 miles	19
East Pharsalia	5.1 miles	19
Stanbro	5.2 miles	19
Sherburne Four Corners	5.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972691. 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.