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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.

North Pitcher within Chenango 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 Pitcher, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of North Pitcher, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

41 since 1995

Regional 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBALSAM POND 1
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
22 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Pitcher$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a house.
June 2011HailNorth Pitcher-There was also gusty winds, with a few tree limbs blown down.

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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
Pitcher Springs1.6 miles17
Northwest Corners2.5 miles16
South Otselic2.6 miles16
Hydeville3.4 miles16
Pharsalia3.4 miles17
Pitcher3.7 miles17
Rhode Island4.0 miles16
Lincklaen4.8 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.

Wikipedia article on North PitcherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740267The 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.