Union Settlement, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Monroe town. It lies in ZIP code area 13167. It stands on Potter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mallory quadrangle.

Union Settlement within Oswego County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Union Settlement, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Union Settlement, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1905 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Mallory quadrangle1:31680
1957 USGS Mallory quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

92 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Union Settlement between 2000 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined	44
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	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
10 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
18 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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
Dutch Settlement	1.8 miles	19
Gayville	1.9 miles	19
Gulf Bridge	2.4 miles	19
Whig Hill	2.5 miles	19
North Constantia	2.9 miles	20
West Monroe	3.0 miles	19
Little France	3.4 miles	19
Mallory	3.9 miles	19

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 Q122565703

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 968216. 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.