Puckerville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in DeRuyter town. It lies in ZIP code area 13052. It stands on East Branch Tioughnioga Creek. The Survey maps it on the DeRuyter quadrangle.

Puckerville within Madison County

Then and now

1897 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Puckerville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Puckerville, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1897 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Cazenovia quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS De Ruyter quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1943 USGS Deruyter quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS De Ruyter 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

36 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Puckerville between 2003 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. 4 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	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 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 July 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 June 2004	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 Madison 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
DeRuyter	2.0 miles	20
Quaker Settlement	2.9 miles	18
Sheds	2.9 miles	18
West Woodstock	4.2 miles	20
New Woodstock	4.4 miles	18
Union	5.6 miles	20
Juddville	6.9 miles	20
Georgetown	7.5 miles	18

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 Q122572243

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 961936. 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.