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Akins Corners, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Patterson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12563. It lies near Conger Hill. The Survey maps it on the Pawling quadrangle.

Akins Corners within Putnam County

Then and now

1893 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Akins Corners, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Akins Corners, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 35 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

166 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Akins Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 334 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined92
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural15
Smoking11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2019Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCRANBERRY MOUNTAIN
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Akins Corners: 13 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Dutchess County Kyn DepositsKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Marble Rock Quarry No. 6kMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Marble Rock Quarry No. Gk-011Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Pauling Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1825, 1870
Pawling MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Pegmatite QuarryBeryllium, Feldspar, MicaPast Producer
Hobby Pyritiferous Ore OpeningIron, SulfurPast ProducerUnknown
Ludingtonville Pyrite ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrenceMetamorphic
Patterson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Patterson Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akins Corners in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailAkins Corners-One inch hail reported via social media near Thunder Ridge in Patterson.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Patterson0.8 miles35
Couch Corners1.9 miles37
West Patterson2.1 miles32
Harmony Park2.1 miles32
Haviland Hollow2.4 miles37
Towners2.6 miles37
Haines Corners2.9 miles37
Valleyville3.4 miles37

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 Q122554045The 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 942223. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.