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South New Berlin, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Berlin town. It lies in ZIP code area 13843. It stands on Great Brook. The Survey maps it on the Holmesville quadrangle. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

South New Berlin within Chenango 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 New Berlin, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of South New Berlin, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of South New Berlin between 1992 and 2017, burning about 47 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 1995Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 June 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South New Berlin: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Number 17 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 17Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South New Berlin in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 1 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
July 2021Flash FloodSouth New Berlin$15,000Several roads flooded in the area, including Mount Upton and South New Berlin. State Route 8 inundated in several places.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSouth New Berlin$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees.

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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
Amblerville1.1 miles17
Holmesville1.4 miles17
Davis Crossing2.7 miles16
White Store3.2 miles18
Chenango Lake4.7 miles17
Sages Crossing4.7 miles16
Springvale4.7 miles17
Lathams Corners4.8 miles18

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 New BerlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740516The 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 965824. 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.