Spruceton, New York
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lexington town. It lies in ZIP code area 12492. It stands on Herdman Brook. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1946 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Spruceton between 1997 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 16 June 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 May 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spruceton in 2 storm reports in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spruceton | - | A tree was downed in the town of Lexington. |
| December 2020 | Flood | Spruceton | - | Hunter Brook washed mud, rock, and debris onto the end of Spruceton Road, blocking access to a popular hiking trailhead. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewett Center | 3.1 miles | 21 | |
| South Jewett | 3.5 miles | 21 | |
| West Kill | 4.3 miles | 21 | |
| Lexington | 4.5 miles | 21 | |
| Hunter | 4.9 miles | 29 | |
| Lanesville | 5.0 miles | 21 | |
| West Jewett | 5.1 miles | 21 | |
| Jewett | 5.4 miles | 21 |
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 Q122547022 | 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 973111. 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.
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.








