North Pitcher, New York
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pitcher town. It lies in ZIP code area 13124. It stands on Glen Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pitcher quadrangle. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:31680
- 1944 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
41 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of North Pitcher between 1995 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | BALSAM POND 1 |
| 27 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 August 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 22 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 9 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Pitcher in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pitcher Springs | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Northwest Corners | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| South Otselic | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Hydeville | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Pharsalia | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Pitcher | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Rhode Island | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Lincklaen | 4.8 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on North Pitcher | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48740267 | 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 958874. 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.








