Taylortown, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otsego town. It lies in ZIP code area 13337. It lies near Panther Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Richfield Springs quadrangle.

Taylortown within Otsego County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Taylortown, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Taylortown, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Taylortown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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
Lidell Corners	2.5 miles	17
Cattown	2.6 miles	17
Schuyler Lake	2.7 miles	17
Pail Shop Corners	2.8 miles	19
Oaksville	3.0 miles	17
Fly Creek	3.1 miles	19
Pierstown	3.7 miles	16
Wileytown	4.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973145. 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.