Van Deusenville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Canajoharie town. It lies in ZIP code area 13317. It stands on Bowmans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sprout Brook quadrangle.

Van Deusenville within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Van Deusenville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Van Deusenville, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:25000
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

52 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Van Deusenville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 4 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	18
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Sprout Brook	0.5 miles	20
Buel	1.5 miles	20
Hessville	2.1 miles	20
Salt Springville	3.3 miles	20
Ames	4.5 miles	18
Marshville	4.6 miles	18
Freysbush	4.7 miles	18
Waterville	5.1 miles	18

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 Q139547012

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 968404. 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.