Perkins Crossing, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hartwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 13326. It lies near Hawkins Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hartwick quadrangle.

Perkins Crossing 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 Perkins Crossing, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Perkins Crossing, 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

56 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Perkins Crossing between 1997 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	35
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
29 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2010	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
9 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

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
Summit Crossing	1.0 miles	17
Chase	1.0 miles	19
Field Crossing	1.2 miles	17
Hartwick	2.3 miles	17
Index	2.7 miles	19
Hyde Park	2.8 miles	19
Toddsville	2.9 miles	19
Scotch Hill	3.0 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 Q122554380

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 972933. 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.