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West Richmondville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richmondville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12149. The Survey maps it on the Richmondville quadrangle.

West Richmondville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 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 Richmondville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of West Richmondville, surveyed 1904

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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of West Richmondville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural3
Smoking2
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPODPADIC ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Clove2.7 miles17
Richmondville2.9 miles17
Hyndsville3.6 miles17
Janesville4.2 miles17
Dorloo4.2 miles17
Beards Hollow4.5 miles17
Seward4.8 miles17
Lutheranville4.9 miles17

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 Q122551395The 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 970852. 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.