Patent, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Burlington town. It lies in ZIP code area 13348. The Survey maps it on the Hartwick quadrangle.

Patent within Otsego County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Patent, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Patent, surveyed 1910

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.

1910 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:62500
1912 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:31680
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

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Patent between 1995 and 2018, burning about 61 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	26
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Natural	2

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
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 June 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 June 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Patent: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Schmidts Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego 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
Scotch Hill	1.9 miles	17
Hartwick	3.0 miles	17
Burlington	3.4 miles	16
Field Crossing	3.7 miles	17
Lena	3.8 miles	18
Summit Crossing	4.0 miles	17
Wileytown	4.2 miles	17
Jones Crossing	4.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122543218

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 972921. 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.