South Vestal, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Vestal town. It lies in ZIP code area 13850. It lies near Wildcat Hill. The Survey maps it on the Endicott quadrangle.

South Vestal within Broome County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 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 Vestal, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of South Vestal, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 30 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.

1901 USGS Apalachin quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Apalachin quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1906 USGS Catatonk quadrangle1:125000
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Endicott quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1956 USGS Endicott quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Endicott quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

38 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of South Vestal between 2003 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	3
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
22 August 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome 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
Vestal Center	1.8 miles	30
Tracy Creek	4.2 miles	30
Hawleyton	4.6 miles	23
Summit Hill	5.8 miles	23
Vestal	6.0 miles	30
Twin Orchard	6.3 miles	30
Park Terrace	6.4 miles	23
Willow Point	6.5 miles	23

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.

Wikidata item Q122548551

The 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 965883. 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.