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Mapletown, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Canajoharie town. It lies in ZIP code area 13317. It lies near Wessel Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sharon Springs quadrangle.

Mapletown within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mapletown, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Mapletown, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

67 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Mapletown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning10
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mapletown: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Barium-Barite, Sulfur. 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
Flat Creek DepositLead, Barium-Barite, SulfurOccurrence
Root PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weaver's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Waterville1.7 miles18
Ames2.2 miles18
Flat Creek3.1 miles18
Browns Hollow3.5 miles18
Marshville3.7 miles18
Sprakers4.4 miles18
Root Center4.6 miles20
Canajoharie4.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 956464. 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.