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Sharon, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sharon town. It lies in ZIP code area 13459. The Survey maps it on the Sharon Springs quadrangle.

Sharon within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sharon, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Sharon, surveyed 1898

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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Sharon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 3 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 1998Thunderstorm WindSharon$2,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSharon-Trees were reported down in Sharon due to strong thunderstorm winds.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindSharon-Tree limbs and wires were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Gilbert Corners1.9 miles18
Little York1.9 miles20
Argusville2.2 miles18
Sharon Center3.1 miles18
Gardnersville3.7 miles17
Lawyersville4.3 miles17
Janesville4.5 miles17
Carlisle4.6 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964944. 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.