Pierstown, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otsego town. It lies in ZIP code area 13326. It lies near Wedderspoon Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Richfield Springs quadrangle.

Pierstown within Otsego County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pierstown, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Pierstown, surveyed 1903

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.

1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Pierstown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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	11
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
2 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 May 2017	Natural	3.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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
Lentsville	3.2 miles	17
Taylortown	3.7 miles	16
Middlefield Center	3.9 miles	17
Whig Corners	4.4 miles	19
Springfield Center	4.4 miles	16
Pail Shop Corners	4.9 miles	19
Cooperstown	4.9 miles	19
Springfield Four Corners	5.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972941. 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.