This is an accepted version of this page
37-489: Coordinates : 42°43′49″N 75°00′11″W / 42.73028°N 75.00306°W / 42.73028; -75.00306 (Redirected from Cattown ) Hamlet in New York, United States Cattown, New York Hamlet [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Cattown, New York Show map of New York [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Cattown, New York Show map of
74-543: A prime meridian at the westernmost known land, designated the Fortunate Isles , off the coast of western Africa around the Canary or Cape Verde Islands , and measured north or south of the island of Rhodes off Asia Minor . Ptolemy credited him with the full adoption of longitude and latitude, rather than measuring latitude in terms of the length of the midsummer day. Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography used
111-491: A land grant from George II of Great Britain ; he moved there in 1739, and seven Anglo-Scottish families from New Hampshire moved into the area the following year. Due to high snow, the community almost failed but was saved by provisions from local natives. During the American Revolutionary War , Walter Butler , a New York Loyalist , led a mixed force of Indians and Loyalists to the area, resulting in
148-679: A little before 1300; the text was translated into Latin at Florence by Jacopo d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference , attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich , England as the zero-reference line. The Dominican Republic voted against
185-416: A location often facetiously called Null Island . In order to use the theoretical definitions of latitude, longitude, and height to precisely measure actual locations on the physical earth, a geodetic datum must be used. A horizonal datum is used to precisely measure latitude and longitude, while a vertical datum is used to measure elevation or altitude. Both types of datum bind a mathematical model of
222-538: A longitudinal degree is 111.3 km. At 30° a longitudinal second is 26.76 m, at Greenwich (51°28′38″N) 19.22 m, and at 60° it is 15.42 m. On the WGS 84 spheroid, the length in meters of a degree of latitude at latitude ϕ (that is, the number of meters you would have to travel along a north–south line to move 1 degree in latitude, when at latitude ϕ ), is about The returned measure of meters per degree latitude varies continuously with latitude. Similarly,
259-700: A national cartographical organization include the North American Datum , the European ED50 , and the British OSGB36 . Given a location, the datum provides the latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } and longitude λ {\displaystyle \lambda } . In the United Kingdom there are three common latitude, longitude, and height systems in use. WGS 84 differs at Greenwich from
296-872: A simple translation may be sufficient. Datums may be global, meaning that they represent the whole Earth, or they may be local, meaning that they represent an ellipsoid best-fit to only a portion of the Earth. Examples of global datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326 ), the default datum used for the Global Positioning System , and the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (ITRF), used for estimating continental drift and crustal deformation . The distance to Earth's center can be used both for very deep positions and for positions in space. Local datums chosen by
333-503: A year, or 10 m in a century. A weather system high-pressure area can cause a sinking of 5 mm . Scandinavia is rising by 1 cm a year as a result of the melting of the ice sheets of the last ice age , but neighboring Scotland is rising by only 0.2 cm . These changes are insignificant if a local datum is used, but are statistically significant if a global datum is used. On the GRS 80 or WGS 84 spheroid at sea level at
370-586: Is where Earth's equatorial radius a {\displaystyle a} equals 6,378,137 m and tan β = b a tan ϕ {\displaystyle \textstyle {\tan \beta ={\frac {b}{a}}\tan \phi }\,\!} ; for the GRS 80 and WGS 84 spheroids, b a = 0.99664719 {\textstyle {\tfrac {b}{a}}=0.99664719} . ( β {\displaystyle \textstyle {\beta }\,\!}
407-625: Is a hamlet located at the corner of Cattown and Hoke Roads in the Town of Otsego, New York , in Otsego County , United States. It is west of Fly Creek and north of Oaksville . The hamlet was named Cattown because a girl's husband dropped a cat down a chimney of a house to break up a meeting she was attending because his dinner was late. References [ edit ] ^ "Cattown" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey , United States Department of
SECTION 10
#1732802309719444-418: Is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude . It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system , the geographic coordinate system
481-496: Is a town in Otsego County , New York , United States. According to the 2020 US census, the village of Cherry Valley had a population of 487. However, the town has a much higher population. Within the town of Cherry Valley is a village , also called Cherry Valley . The town is in the northeastern corner of the county and is northeast of the City of Oneonta . The modern history of Cherry Valley begins with John Lindesay receiving
518-719: Is known as the reduced (or parametric) latitude ). Aside from rounding, this is the exact distance along a parallel of latitude; getting the distance along the shortest route will be more work, but those two distances are always within 0.6 m of each other if the two points are one degree of longitude apart. Like any series of multiple-digit numbers, latitude-longitude pairs can be challenging to communicate and remember. Therefore, alternative schemes have been developed for encoding GCS coordinates into alphanumeric strings or words: These are not distinct coordinate systems, only alternative methods for expressing latitude and longitude measurements. Cherry Valley, New York Cherry Valley
555-544: Is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are not on a planar surface. A full GCS specification, such as those listed in the EPSG and ISO 19111 standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid ), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values for the same location. The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene , who composed his now-lost Geography at
592-753: Is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses (often called great circles ), which converge at the North and South Poles. The meridian of the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich , in southeast London, England, is the international prime meridian , although some organizations—such as the French Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière —continue to use other meridians for internal purposes. The prime meridian determines
629-426: Is the border of Montgomery and Herkimer counties . The eastern town line is the border of Schoharie County . New York State Route 166 intersects US Route 20 in the town. The Cherry Valley Creek flows southward through the center of the town. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,266 people, 482 households, and 350 families residing in the town. (See table: Historical Population). The population density
666-405: Is ultimately calculated from latitude and longitude, it is crucial that they clearly state the datum on which they are based. For example, a UTM coordinate based on WGS84 will be different than a UTM coordinate based on NAD27 for the same location. Converting coordinates from one datum to another requires a datum transformation such as a Helmert transformation , although in certain situations
703-626: The Cherry Valley Massacre , during which more than 40 people were killed and many were captured. This massacre was followed by a second raid in 1780, leading to the temporary abandonment of the village. The town was established in 1791 from Canajoharie (in Montgomery County ) as one of the original towns in the county. It was subsequently divided, giving rise to several new towns: Middlefield , Springfield , and Worcester (all in 1797) and Roseboom in 1854. In 1812,
740-494: The Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar altitude and determining longitude by timings of lunar eclipses , rather than dead reckoning . In the 1st or 2nd century, Marinus of Tyre compiled an extensive gazetteer and mathematically plotted world map using coordinates measured east from
777-512: The Equator, one latitudinal second measures 30.715 m , one latitudinal minute is 1843 m and one latitudinal degree is 110.6 km. The circles of longitude, meridians, meet at the geographical poles, with the west–east width of a second naturally decreasing as latitude increases. On the Equator at sea level, one longitudinal second measures 30.92 m, a longitudinal minute is 1855 m and
SECTION 20
#1732802309719814-2375: The Interior . ^ "Cattown" . topozone.com . usgs. 1972 . Retrieved 16 May 2017 . v t e Municipalities and communities of Otsego County, New York , United States County seat : Cooperstown City Oneonta [REDACTED] Towns Burlington Butternuts Cherry Valley Decatur Edmeston Exeter Hartwick Laurens Maryland Middlefield Milford Morris New Lisbon Oneonta Otego Otsego Pittsfield Plainfield Richfield Roseboom Springfield Unadilla Westford Worcester Villages Cherry Valley Cooperstown Gilbertsville Laurens Milford Morris Otego Richfield Springs Unadilla CDPs Burlington Flats East Worcester Edmeston Fly Creek Garrattsville Hartwick Hartwick Seminary Mount Vision Portlandville Schenevus Schuyler Lake South Edmeston Springfield Center Unadilla Forks Wells Bridge West End Westford Worcester Other hamlets Cattown East Springfield Federal Corners Index Oaksville Pail Shop Corners Pierstown Pleasant Brook Richfield Salt Springville ‡ Silver Lake South Hartwick Taylortown Toddsville Welcome West Burlington West Edmeston ‡ West Oneonta Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties New York portal United States portal Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cattown,_New_York&oldid=1084799650 " Category : Hamlets in Otsego County, New York Hidden categories: Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Coordinates on Wikidata All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2022 Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system ( GCS )
851-553: The United States Coordinates: 42°43′49″N 75°00′11″W / 42.73028°N 75.00306°W / 42.73028; -75.00306 Country United States State New York County Otsego Town Otsego Elevation 1,279 ft (389 m) Time zone UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) ) • Summer ( DST ) UTC-4 (EDT) ZIP code 13337 Area code 607 Cattown
888-419: The age of 18 living with them, 58.3% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.2% were non-families. 23.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.10. In the town, the population was spread out, with 27.1% under
925-460: The age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.3 males. The median income for a household in the town was $ 39,107, and the median income for a family was $ 44,559. Males had a median income of $ 28,810 versus $ 22,417 for females. The per capita income for
962-697: The community of Cherry Valley set itself apart by incorporating as a village. The town has become known for its arts community, and for a summer festival which attracts opera lovers from the Glimmerglass Festival in nearby Cooperstown . The Tepee was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 40.1 square miles (103.8 km ), all land. The northern town line
999-464: The far western Aleutian Islands . The combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The visual grid on a map formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule . The origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km (390 mi) south of Tema , Ghana ,
1036-415: The length in meters of a degree of longitude can be calculated as (Those coefficients can be improved, but as they stand the distance they give is correct within a centimeter.) The formulae both return units of meters per degree. An alternative method to estimate the length of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is to assume a spherical Earth (to get
1073-481: The motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911. The latitude ϕ of a point on Earth's surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through (or close to) the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on
1110-523: The one used on published maps OSGB36 by approximately 112 m. The military system ED50 , used by NATO , differs from about 120 m to 180 m. Points on the Earth's surface move relative to each other due to continental plate motion, subsidence, and diurnal Earth tidal movement caused by the Moon and the Sun. This daily movement can be as much as a meter. Continental movement can be up to 10 cm
1147-535: The proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres , although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E. This is not to be conflated with the International Date Line , which diverges from it in several places for political and convenience reasons, including between far eastern Russia and
Cattown, New York - Misplaced Pages Continue
1184-430: The same datum will obtain the same location measurement for the same physical location. However, two different datums will usually yield different location measurements for the same physical location, which may appear to differ by as much as several hundred meters; this not because the location has moved, but because the reference system used to measure it has shifted. Because any spatial reference system or map projection
1221-664: The same prime meridian but measured latitude from the Equator instead. After their work was translated into Arabic in the 9th century, Al-Khwārizmī 's Book of the Description of the Earth corrected Marinus' and Ptolemy's errors regarding the length of the Mediterranean Sea , causing medieval Arabic cartography to use a prime meridian around 10° east of Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes ' recovery of Ptolemy's text
1258-486: The shape of the earth (usually a reference ellipsoid for a horizontal datum, and a more precise geoid for a vertical datum) to the earth. Traditionally, this binding was created by a network of control points , surveyed locations at which monuments are installed, and were only accurate for a region of the surface of the Earth. Some newer datums are bound to the center of mass of the Earth. This combination of mathematical model and physical binding mean that anyone using
1295-464: The surface of Earth called parallels , as they are parallel to the Equator and to each other. The North Pole is 90° N; the South Pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the Equator , the fundamental plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The Equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres . The longitude λ of a point on Earth's surface
1332-445: The width per minute and second, divide by 60 and 3600, respectively): where Earth's average meridional radius M r {\displaystyle \textstyle {M_{r}}\,\!} is 6,367,449 m . Since the Earth is an oblate spheroid , not spherical, that result can be off by several tenths of a percent; a better approximation of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi }
1369-453: Was 31.6 inhabitants per square mile (12.2/km ). There were 629 housing units at an average density of 15.7 per square mile (6.1/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 98.82% White , 0.08% Black or African American , 0.08% Native American , 0.39% Asian , 0.08% from other races , and 0.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.24% of the population. There were 482 households, out of which 31.7% had children under
#718281