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South Hartwick, New York

18 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 13810. It lies near Bunn Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vision quadrangle. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.

South Hartwick 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 South Hartwick, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of South Hartwick, surveyed 1910

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

54 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of South Hartwick between 1995 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
2 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 1999Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

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 South Hartwick: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schmidts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Hartwick in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSouth Hartwick$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Hartwick$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Arnold Lake Road.
June 2025Flash FloodSouth Hartwick$2,000Water and debris was reported across the road south of the Town of Hartwick.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Jones Crossing0.8 miles17
Lena1.5 miles18
Fall Bridge1.9 miles18
Mount Vision2.6 miles18
Hartwick3.0 miles17
Scotch Hill3.9 miles17
Field Crossing4.4 miles17
Welcome4.6 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on South HartwickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740558The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965766. 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.

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.