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New Boston, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cuyler town. It lies in ZIP code area 13158. It lies near Bull Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cuyler quadrangle.

New Boston within Cortland County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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 New Boston, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Boston, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of New Boston between 1995 and 2017, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined7
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
14 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 July 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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
Guyler Hill2.8 miles17
Cheningo3.6 miles17
Union Valley3.7 miles17
Taylor Center4.1 miles16
Cuyler4.5 miles17
Crains Mills4.7 miles23
Tripoli4.8 miles17
Taylor Valley5.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972831. 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.