Kringsbush, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oppenheim town. It lies in ZIP code area 13452. It lies near Getman Hill. The Survey maps it on the Oppenheim quadrangle.

Kringsbush within Fulton County

Then and now

1901 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kringsbush, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Kringsbush, surveyed 1901

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.

1901 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1945 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Oppenheim quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Kringsbush between 1994 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 14 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	26
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
3 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
Lassellsville	3.1 miles	21
Crum Creek	4.5 miles	19
Oppenheim	5.0 miles	19
Ephratah	5.0 miles	21
Scotchbrush	5.1 miles	21
Dempster Corners	5.9 miles	21
Garoga	6.6 miles	21
Middle Sprite	7.3 miles	19

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 Q122568443

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 972696. 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.