Pine Grove, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Broome town. It lies in ZIP code area 12122. It lies near East Hill. The Survey maps it on the Middleburgh quadrangle.

Pine Grove within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine Grove, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Pine Grove, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1898 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1944 USGS Middleburgh quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1946 USGS Middleburgh 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

70 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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	31
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie 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
Hawversville	1.4 miles	20
Franklinton	2.5 miles	21
Huntersland	2.8 miles	21
Livingstonville	3.0 miles	21
Bates	5.9 miles	21
Middleburgh	6.1 miles	21
West Middleburgh	6.7 miles	21
Broome Center	6.8 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972944. 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.