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Kortright Center, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kortright town. It lies in ZIP code area 13739. The Survey maps it on the Davenport quadrangle.

Kortright Center within Delaware County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kortright Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kortright Center, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Kortright Center between 1995 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined16
Natural5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2008Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersSUNRISE MOUNTAIN FIRE
4 May 2007Other causes1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Kortright Center: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town of Harpersfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Kortright Station1.3 miles17
North Kortright2.3 miles16
Sturges Corner2.4 miles17
West Harpersfield3.0 miles16
West Kortright4.2 miles17
Hoseaville4.4 miles17
Butts Corner4.7 miles17
Harpersfield4.9 miles16

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 Q21551476The 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 954807. 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.