Rootville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Butternuts town. It lies in ZIP code area 13825. It lies near Filer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gilbertsville quadrangle.

Rootville within Otsego County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rootville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Rootville, surveyed 1915

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.

1915 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Gilbertsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Gilbertsville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Rootville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 40 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	12
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
15 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 May 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 May 2010	Debris and open burning	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

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
Freer Corner	1.2 miles	17
Toll Corner	1.7 miles	17
Heslops Corner	2.3 miles	17
Mallory Corner	2.5 miles	17
Frone Corner	2.6 miles	17
Maple Grove	2.9 miles	15
Gilbertsville	3.1 miles	17
Youmans Corner	3.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973022. 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.