Moshier Falls, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Webb town. It lies in ZIP code area 13367. It stands on Sunday Creek. The Survey maps it on the Number Four quadrangle.

Moshier Falls within Herkimer County

Then and now

1912 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moshier Falls, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Moshier Falls, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1912 USGS Number Four quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Number Four quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Number Four quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Number Four quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Moshier Falls between 2003 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	STILLWATER FIRE
26 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	LIZARD BAY ISLAND FIRE
22 June 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	FRANCIS LAKE FIRE
22 June 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 April 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Wolf Lake Landing

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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
Stillwater	5.6 miles	20
Woods Lake	10.0 miles	28
Beaver River	12.4 miles	28
Big Moose	12.4 miles	28
Thendara	13.8 miles	23
Old Forge	14.1 miles	24
Minnehaha	14.9 miles	23
Brandreth	15.9 miles	28

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 Q122554727

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 957742. 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.