Middlefield Center, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Middlefield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13326. It lies near Hogs Back. The Survey maps it on the East Springfield quadrangle.

Middlefield Center within Otsego County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Middlefield Center, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Middlefield Center, surveyed 1903

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.

1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS East Springfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS East Springfield quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS East Springfield quadrangle1:25000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Middlefield Center between 1994 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 4 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	9
Debris and open burning	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
13 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
20 May 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 May 2015	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 April 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 April 2006	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 Otsego 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
Lentsville	1.4 miles	17
Roseboom	3.7 miles	18
Pierstown	3.9 miles	16
East Springfield	4.8 miles	17
Whig Corners	4.8 miles	19
Middle Village	4.8 miles	17
Springfield Center	4.9 miles	16
Springfield	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 Q122596934

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 957148. 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.