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South Kortright, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stamford town. It lies in ZIP code area 13842. It stands on Betty Brook. The Survey maps it on the Hobart quadrangle. It stands 1,509 feet above sea level.

South Kortright within Delaware 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 Kortright, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of South Kortright, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

51 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of South Kortright between 1999 and 2016, burning about 140 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning6
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2008Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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
Hobart3.2 miles16
Bloomville4.8 miles16
Bovina5.0 miles16
Kortright Center6.0 miles17
Kortright Station6.1 miles17
West Harpersfield6.4 miles16
North Kortright6.6 miles16
Bovina Center6.6 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 KortrightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21551693The 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 965796. 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.