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Mileses, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Fremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12741. The Survey maps it on the Callicoon quadrangle.

Mileses within Sullivan County

Then and now

1920 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mileses, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Mileses, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

62 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Mileses between 2003 and 2018, burning about 61 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined44
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2004Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 June 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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
Fremont Center1.3 miles25
Hankins1.9 miles25
Pleasant Valley2.3 miles25
Basket2.5 miles25
Fernwood2.6 miles25
Obernburg3.2 miles25
Long Eddy3.7 miles25
North Branch4.4 miles21

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 Q122552925The 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 957182. 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.