Plainfield Center, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Plainfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13491. The Survey maps it on the Unadilla Forks quadrangle.

Plainfield Center within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plainfield Center, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Plainfield Center, surveyed 1907

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.

1907 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Unadilla Forks quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Unadilla Forks 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

44 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Plainfield Center between 1995 and 2018, burning about 32 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	25
Arson/incendiarism	10
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
4 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 June 2008	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 Otsego 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 Plainfield Center: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Welch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	West Winfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Huntly Corners	2.0 miles	16
West Exeter	2.9 miles	16
Lloydsville	3.3 miles	16
Unadilla Forks	3.5 miles	16
Dogtown	4.9 miles	17
Pecktown	4.9 miles	16
Exeter Corner	6.4 miles	17
Richfield	6.5 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 Q122545447

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 960661. 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.