Watsonville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fulton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12122. It lies near Pleasant Valley. The Survey maps it on the Breakabeen quadrangle.

Watsonville within Schoharie 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 Watsonville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Watsonville, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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 Schoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS Breakabeen quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1946 USGS Breakabeen quadrangle1:31680
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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Watsonville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 130 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 12 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	37
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	7
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 July 2003	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 June 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie 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 Watsonville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Spring Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Schoharie 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
Fultonham	1.2 miles	22
West Middleburgh	2.1 miles	21
Patria	3.0 miles	22
Middleburgh	3.2 miles	21
West Fulton	4.2 miles	22
Breakabeen	4.3 miles	22
Vintonton	4.8 miles	22
Greenbush	5.1 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968932. 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.