South Windsor, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 13865. It stands on Tuscarora Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gulf Summit quadrangle.

South Windsor within Broome County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 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 Windsor, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of South Windsor, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1905 USGS Nineveh quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Gulf Summit quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of South Windsor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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	21
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	WINDSOR
28 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome 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 Windsor: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Benjamin Franklin Graphite Mine	Graphite	Past Producer
	Mills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Damascus	2.1 miles	17
Edson	2.1 miles	16
Cascade Valley	2.9 miles	17
Windsor	3.5 miles	16
Flowers	3.7 miles	16
Gulf Summit	4.9 miles	17
Occanum	5.6 miles	16
East Windsor	5.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965889. 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.