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Piseco, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Arietta town. It lies in ZIP code area 12139. It stands on Cold Stream. The Survey maps it on the Piseco Lake quadrangle.

Piseco within Hamilton County

Then and now

1904 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Piseco, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Piseco, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Piseco between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFAWN LAKE #1
1 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersOXBOW LAKE #2
23 August 2007Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest RangersOXBOW LAKE
1 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFAWN LAKE FIRE
7 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersPISECO NATIONAL GRID FIRE
20 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCASEY CORNER STORE FIRE
15 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Piseco: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Panther Mountain DepositGarnetOccurrence
Twin Lakes Mountain DepositGarnetOccurrence

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piseco in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2005: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPiseco$6,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPiseco$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPiseco$3,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindPiseco-Trees were blown down over a widespread area in Piseco.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Rudeston1.0 miles26
Higgins Bay2.9 miles26
Lake Pleasant5.8 miles26
Shaker Place8.6 miles24
Speculator9.0 miles26
Gilmantown10.8 miles26
Averys Place10.8 miles24
Hoffmeister11.2 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 960626. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.