Tuscan, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Worcester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12197. It stands on Decatur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Schenevus quadrangle.

Tuscan within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tuscan, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Tuscan, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Schenevus quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Schenevus 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

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Tuscan between 1995 and 2017, burning about 42 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2015	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 June 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
Worcester	1.0 miles	19
Elk Creek	2.9 miles	19
Schenevus	3.8 miles	19
Decatur	4.6 miles	17
Westford	4.6 miles	18
South Worcester	4.9 miles	17
Chaseville	5.6 miles	19
East Worcester	5.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 967990. 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.