Whitelaw, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lenox town. It lies in ZIP code area 13032. The Survey maps it on the Jewell quadrangle.

Whitelaw within Madison County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whitelaw, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Whitelaw, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

1895 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1941 USGS Jewell quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Jewell quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jewell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Whitelaw between 2000 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined	27
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
18 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Walkers Corners	1.2 miles	23
Messenger Bay	1.8 miles	24
Gees Corner	2.0 miles	24
Oniontown	2.3 miles	23
Oneida Lake Beach East	2.7 miles	24
South Bay	2.8 miles	26
Oneida Lake Beach West	3.4 miles	24
East Boston	3.7 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971153. 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.