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Tomantown, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mayfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12117. It lies near Steele Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Jackson Summit quadrangle.

Tomantown within Fulton 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 Tomantown, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Tomantown, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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.

Fires near this place

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Tomantown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWOODS LAKE FIRE
10 August 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWOODS LAKE FIRE
4 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWOODS LAKE
31 July 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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 Tomantown: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Quartz. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tyrell QuarryFeldspar, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Werner ProspectsFeldspar, Stone, QuartzProspect

Every working recorded in Fulton 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lindsley Corners4.3 miles22
Jackson Summit4.6 miles22
Cranberry Creek5.1 miles23
Sweets Crossing5.2 miles23
Dennies Hollow5.5 miles22
Sacandaga Park5.7 miles23
Peters Corners6.2 miles22
Bleecker Center6.3 miles22

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 Q122547606The 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 973162. 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.