Loomis, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Walton town. It lies in ZIP code area 13856. It lies near Chipmunk Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Walton West quadrangle.

Loomis within Delaware County

Then and now

1923 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Loomis, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Loomis, surveyed 1923

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.

1923 USGS Walton quadrangle1:48000
1923 USGS Walton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1925 USGS Walton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Walton West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Loomis between 1999 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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	46
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	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
Cleaver	2.2 miles	17
Northfield	3.0 miles	17
Trout Creek	3.4 miles	15
Tacoma	3.9 miles	15
Pinesville	4.6 miles	17
Merrickville	5.0 miles	16
Franklin Depot	5.1 miles	16
Walton	5.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Loomis	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60746394	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 955959. 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.