Upper Barbourville, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Deposit town. It lies in ZIP code area 13754. It stands on Steam Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Trout Creek quadrangle.

Upper Barbourville within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Upper Barbourville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Upper Barbourville, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1924 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Upper Barbourville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 June 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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
Barbourville	1.6 miles	15
China	2.6 miles	15
Whitman	2.7 miles	15
Arctic	3.6 miles	15
Hambletville	4.8 miles	15
Trout Creek	5.0 miles	15
Ivanhoe	5.2 miles	15
Masonville	5.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973178. 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.