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West Kortright, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kortright town. It lies in ZIP code area 13753. The Survey maps it on the Davenport quadrangle.

West Kortright within Delaware County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 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 Kortright, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West Kortright, surveyed 1909

On record in West Kortright

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of West Kortright between 1992 and 2017, burning about 73 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 West Kortright: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hillis Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
East Meredith2.3 miles17
Kortright Station3.0 miles17
Shackport4.0 miles17
Kortright Center4.2 miles17
Davenport Center4.8 miles17
Davenport4.9 miles17
Bloomville5.2 miles16
Meredith5.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973243. 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.