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North Harpersfield, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harpersfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12093. It lies near Fan Hill. The Survey maps it on the Harpersfield quadrangle.

North Harpersfield within Delaware 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 North Harpersfield, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of North Harpersfield, surveyed 1904

On record in North Harpersfield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of North Harpersfield between 1993 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined24
Natural8
Debris and open burning7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1

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
1 September 2015Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 May 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 May 2013Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 May 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Harpersfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town of Harpersfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Harpersfield2.4 miles16
West Harpersfield3.1 miles16
North Kortright3.6 miles16
Sturges Corner3.8 miles17
Simpsonville5.3 miles19
Kortright Center5.8 miles17
Stamford6.1 miles17
Fergusonville6.2 miles17

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 Q122569493The 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 958807. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.