Middle Sprite, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 13329. The Survey maps it on the Oppenheim quadrangle.

Middle Sprite 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 Middle Sprite, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Middle Sprite, 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Middle Sprite between 1994 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
19 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HOUSE POND FIRE
17 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	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
Stewart Landing	2.8 miles	24
Bliss Corner	3.0 miles	21
Lotville	3.2 miles	19
Dempster Corners	3.7 miles	21
Emmonsburg	4.4 miles	21
Oppenheim	4.4 miles	19
Scotchbrush	4.8 miles	21
Doxtater Corner	5.0 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 Q122566576

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 972797. 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.