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Vega, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Roxbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 12421. It lies near Buffalo Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Roxbury quadrangle.

Vega within Delaware County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vega, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Vega, surveyed 1904

On record in Vega

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Vega between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning16
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
20 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 June 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 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 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Roxbury2.7 miles17
Hubbell Corners3.4 miles17
Denver3.6 miles20
Bedell4.3 miles20
Halcottsville5.0 miles20
West Settlement5.0 miles17
Hardscrabble5.3 miles17
Kelly Corners6.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968478. 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.