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Mundale, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hamden town. It lies in ZIP code area 13856. It stands on Crystal Brook. The Survey maps it on the Treadwell quadrangle.

Mundale within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mundale, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Mundale, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

25 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mundale between 2001 and 2016, burning about 20 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 June 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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
Arabia3.1 miles15
West Delhi3.8 miles15
Fraser4.6 miles16
Hamden5.3 miles16
De Lancey5.4 miles16
Hawleys5.4 miles17
Treadwell6.0 miles15
West Meredith6.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972825. 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.