West Barre, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Barre town. It lies in ZIP code area 14411. The Survey maps it on the Knowlesville quadrangle.

West Barre within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

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 West Barre, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of West Barre, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1897 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1950 USGS Knowlesville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of West Barre between 1999 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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	35
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
23 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans 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
Burma Woods	2.0 miles	18
Pine Hill	2.2 miles	18
Barre Center	3.9 miles	20
East Shelby	4.0 miles	18
Millville	5.3 miles	18
South Barre	5.5 miles	20
Eagle Harbor Station	5.7 miles	18
Knowlesville Station	5.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 969091. 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.