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North Burke, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Burke town. It lies in ZIP code area 12917. The Survey maps it on the Burke quadrangle.

North Burke within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Burke, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Burke, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

45 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of North Burke between 1999 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning10
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 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 Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Burke in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Burke$2,000Multiple trees down across East road in Burke.
April 1996HailNorth Burke-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Sun2.4 miles14
Cooks Mill2.8 miles15
Brayton Hollow4.0 miles14
Burke Center4.7 miles14
Thayer Corners4.8 miles14
Burke5.7 miles14
Chateaugay6.5 miles16
Earlville6.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972854. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.