Mosquito Point, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lexington town. It lies in ZIP code area 12468. It lies near Maben Hill. The Survey maps it on the Prattsville quadrangle.

Mosquito Point within Greene County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mosquito Point, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Mosquito Point, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1945 USGS Prattsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1946 USGS Prattsville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Mosquito Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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	23
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
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
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
North Lexington	1.2 miles	21
Lexington	2.2 miles	21
Red Falls	3.4 miles	21
West Kill	3.6 miles	21
West Jewett	3.7 miles	21
Prattsville	4.2 miles	21
Ashland	4.6 miles	21
Jewett Center	4.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 957751. 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.