Silver Lake, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pittsfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13411. It stands on Wharton Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Berlin South quadrangle.

Silver Lake 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 Silver Lake, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Silver Lake, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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 New Berlin quadrangle1:62500
1912 USGS New Berlin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS New Berlin South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1945 USGS New Berlin South 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Silver Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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	24
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
19 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
15 July 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

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 Silver Lake: 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
	New Berlin Town Pit	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
Hoboken	1.8 miles	17
Pittsfield	3.7 miles	17
Cardtown	5.5 miles	16
South Edmeston	5.8 miles	17
Morris	5.9 miles	16
Amblers Crossing	6.2 miles	17
Elm Grove	6.5 miles	16
Stetsonville	7.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965263. 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.