Sand Hill, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Unadilla town. It lies in ZIP code area 13849. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gilbertsville quadrangle.

Sand Hill 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 Sand Hill, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Sand Hill, 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

64 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Sand Hill between 1998 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined	41
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sand Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Unadilla Concrete Prods S & G	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
Wells Bridge	1.2 miles	16
Youmans Corner	1.7 miles	17
Unadilla Center	3.0 miles	17
Mallory Corner	3.5 miles	17
Unadilla	4.5 miles	19
Otego	4.9 miles	15
Rootville	5.4 miles	17
Copes Corner	6.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973040. 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.