BlockStewart Landing, New York
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Stratford town. It lies in ZIP code area 13470. The Survey maps it on the Canada Lake quadrangle.
Then and now
1901 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 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.
- 1901 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1945 USGS Canada Lake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1945 USGS Lassellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Canada Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Canada Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Stewart Landing between 1995 and 2020, burning about 36 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | BOULDER |
| 26 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | CAROGA FIRE |
| 9 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 7 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | NINE CORNER LAKE |
| 7 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Sprite | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Dempster Corners | 3.7 miles | 21 | |
| Bliss Corner | 4.1 miles | 21 | |
| Glasgow Mills | 4.3 miles | 21 | |
| Canada Lake | 4.9 miles | 24 | |
| Newkirk | 4.9 miles | 21 | |
| Scotchbrush | 5.0 miles | 21 | |
| Wheelerville | 5.7 miles | 22 |
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 Q122569734 | 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 973116. 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.