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Peas Eddy, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hancock town. It lies in ZIP code area 13783. It stands on Peas Eddy Brook. The Survey maps it on the Fishs Eddy quadrangle.

Peas Eddy within Delaware County

Then and now

1920 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Peas Eddy, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Peas Eddy, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Peas Eddy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
17 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 June 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Peas Eddy: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Thompkins Bluestone Quarry.FlagstonePast Producer
Hancock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hancock Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompkins Bluestone Quarry.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

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
Hancock2.7 miles24
Cadosia2.8 miles24
French Woods2.9 miles23
Fishs Eddy3.2 miles23
Luzerne4.4 miles23
Lordville5.4 miles25
Readburn5.4 miles18
Kerry Siding5.6 miles16

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 Q122540813The 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 960060. 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.