North Bush, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Caroga town. It lies in ZIP code area 12095. It stands on Glasgow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peck Lake quadrangle.

North Bush within Fulton County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

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 North Bush, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of North Bush, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1903 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Peck Lake quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Peck Lake quadrangle1:24000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Peck Lake quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of North Bush between 1995 and 2018, burning about 75 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	3
Smoking	2
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
15 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	CAROGA FIRE
9 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
Bradtville	1.1 miles	21
Rockwood	1.9 miles	21
Newkirk	2.2 miles	21
Glasgow Mills	2.4 miles	21
Garoga	3.1 miles	21
Cork	3.2 miles	21
Caroga Lake	3.7 miles	22
Scotchbrush	4.4 miles	21

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 Q122570805

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 958737. 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.