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Price Home, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Owego town. It lies in ZIP code area 13827. It stands on Barnes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Apalachin quadrangle.

Price Home within Tioga County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Price Home, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Price Home, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Price Home between 1992 and 2019, burning about 120 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tioga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Price Home: 6 producers, 4 past producers, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
K.Pompelly No.1 WellSaltProspect
Bunce PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Concrete Materials S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
County FarmSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J. W. Bishop Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Newman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nichols QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Nichols QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Owego PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pipher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tioga 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
Gaskill2.2 miles29
Owego2.6 miles21
Campville3.7 miles29
Foster4.0 miles29
Goodrich4.0 miles21
Hullsville4.0 miles29
Apalachin4.2 miles29
Flemingville4.3 miles29

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 Q122555209The 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 972972. 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.