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South Gilboa Station, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gilboa town. It lies in ZIP code area 12167. The Survey maps it on the Stamford quadrangle.

South Gilboa Station within Schoharie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Gilboa Station, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of South Gilboa Station, surveyed 1904

On record in South Gilboa Station

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

46 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of South Gilboa Station between 2001 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined17
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
South Gilboa1.7 miles17
South Jefferson2.9 miles17
Jefferson5.5 miles17
Gilboa6.3 miles22
East Jefferson6.5 miles17
West Jefferson6.5 miles16
Vorman Corners6.5 miles17
North Blenheim7.5 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965751. 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.