Kortright Station, 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 Station 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 Station, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Kortright Station, 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.

1909 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Kortright Station between 1999 and 2017, burning about 62 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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	20
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kortright Center	1.3 miles	17
West Kortright	3.0 miles	17
Sturges Corner	3.6 miles	17
North Kortright	3.6 miles	16
West Harpersfield	4.3 miles	16
Hoseaville	4.8 miles	17
East Meredith	4.9 miles	17
Butts Corner	5.0 miles	17

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 Q21551480

The 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 954809. 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.