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Van Etten Junction, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Van Etten town. It lies in ZIP code area 14889. It stands on Langford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Van Etten quadrangle.

Van Etten Junction within Chemung County

Then and now

1902 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 90 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 Etten Junction, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Van Etten Junction, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Van Etten Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning8
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2015Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2015Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 September 2009Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chemung County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Van Etten Junction: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
E.C.Kesselring No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chemung 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
Van Etten0.8 miles27
Swartwood3.7 miles27
Hicks5.4 miles29
Erin5.9 miles27
Erin Estates6.2 miles27
Owens Mills8.5 miles29
North Chemung9.3 miles26
Breesport9.3 miles27

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 Q122558770The 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 968414. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.