Pitcher Springs, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pitcher town. It lies in ZIP code area 13136. The Survey maps it on the Pitcher quadrangle.

Pitcher Springs within Chenango County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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 Pitcher Springs, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Pitcher Springs, surveyed 1904

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.

1904 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1944 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
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

48 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Pitcher Springs between 1995 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	16
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BALSAM POND 1
27 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango 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
North Pitcher	1.6 miles	17
Pharsalia	2.4 miles	17
Pitcher	2.7 miles	17
Hydeville	2.9 miles	16
Northwest Corners	3.3 miles	16
South Otselic	3.9 miles	16
Rhode Island	5.6 miles	16
Lincklaen	6.1 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 Q122539253

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 972951. 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.