Scotch Hill, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hartwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 13348. It stands on Clark Brook. The Survey maps it on the Hartwick quadrangle.

Scotch Hill within Otsego County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Scotch Hill, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Scotch Hill, surveyed 1910

On record in Scotch Hill

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Hartwick Historic Districtlisted 2013 · 1.0 miles away

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.

1910 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:62500
1912 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Hartwick quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Hartwick 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

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Scotch Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 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	22
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
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
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
Hartwick	1.2 miles	17
Field Crossing	1.8 miles	17
Patent	1.9 miles	17
Summit Crossing	2.2 miles	17
Perkins Crossing	3.0 miles	17
Wileytown	3.1 miles	17
Jones Crossing	3.2 miles	17
Lena	3.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964665. 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.