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Roseboom, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Roseboom town. It lies in ZIP code area 13320. The Survey maps it on the Westford quadrangle.

Roseboom within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Roseboom, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Roseboom, surveyed 1907

On record in Roseboom

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

25 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Roseboom between 2004 and 2016, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2

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
22 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 May 2016Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 May 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 April 2004Misuse of fire by a minor1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roseboom in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2011Thunderstorm WindRoseboom$2,000Numerous trees were blown down on Ziefle Road.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pleasant Brook1.9 miles18
Middlefield Center3.7 miles17
Cherry Valley3.9 miles17
South Valley4.2 miles17
Maple Valley4.3 miles18
Lentsville4.4 miles17
Five Points4.8 miles18
Center Valley4.9 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 962915. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.