Searsburg, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hector town. It lies in ZIP code area 14886. The Survey maps it on the Trumansburg quadrangle.

Searsburg within Schuyler County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Searsburg, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Searsburg, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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.

1902 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1942 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Searsburg between 1995 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 4 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	30
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Green Mountain National Forest	not named
20 August 1995	Smoking	1.0 acres	Green Mountain National Forest	not named
19 August 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 Schuyler 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
East Steamburg	1.9 miles	23
Spaulding Corner	2.2 miles	23
Perry City	3.5 miles	35
Reynoldsville	4.8 miles	30
Mecklenburg	5.2 miles	35
Logan	5.7 miles	30
Valois	7.5 miles	24
Hector	7.5 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 974056. 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.