Kirkwood, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cohocton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14826. It stands on Kirkwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Naples quadrangle.

Kirkwood within Steuben County

Then and now

1900 to 1983

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 Kirkwood, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet of Kirkwood, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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 Naples quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1903 USGS Naples quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1913 USGS Naples quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Naples quadrangle1:31680
1942 USGS Naples quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Kirkwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 August 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben 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 Kirkwood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cohocton Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben 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
Atlanta	1.5 miles	25
North Cohocton	1.9 miles	25
Lent Hill	2.6 miles	25
Cohocton	3.1 miles	22
Ingleside	4.2 miles	25
Wallace	6.4 miles	19
Patchinville	6.6 miles	22
Wayland	7.0 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972692. 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.