Pecktown, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Burlington town. It lies in ZIP code area 13315. It stands on Dundee Brook. The Survey maps it on the Unadilla Forks quadrangle.

Pecktown within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pecktown, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Pecktown, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1907 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Unadilla Forks quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Unadilla Forks 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

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Pecktown between 1995 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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	6
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 June 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 May 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	BURLINGTON FLATS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
West Exeter	2.0 miles	16
Burlington Flats	2.7 miles	16
Chapinville	3.3 miles	16
Burlington	3.6 miles	16
Huntly Corners	3.9 miles	16
Exeter Corner	3.9 miles	17
Barrett Corners	4.0 miles	16
Plainfield Center	4.9 miles	16

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 Q122539113

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 960090. 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.