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Townsendville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lodi town. It lies in ZIP code area 14847. It lies near Butcher Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lodi quadrangle.

Townsendville within Seneca County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Townsendville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Townsendville, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Townsendville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 59 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seneca 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
Lodi Center2.0 miles23
Lodi3.6 miles23
Cat Elbow Corner4.0 miles23
Interlaken4.3 miles23
Caywood4.4 miles23
Lamoreaux Landing5.0 miles24
Covert5.2 miles23
Bergen Beach6.0 miles23

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 Q122598140The 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 974068. 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.