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Penelope, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Triangle town. It lies in ZIP code area 13862. The Survey maps it on the Willet quadrangle.

Penelope within Broome County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Penelope, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Penelope, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Penelope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 99 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
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2

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
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burning2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome 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
Upper Lisle3.5 miles15
Triangle5.2 miles17
Dorchester Estates6.0 miles17
Killawog6.7 miles22
Whitney Point7.0 miles17
Lisle7.2 miles20
Meadowbrooke Estates7.4 miles17
Itaska7.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972931. 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.