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Barnes Corners, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pinckney town. It lies in ZIP code area 13626. It stands on Denning Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barnes Corners quadrangle.

Barnes Corners within Lewis 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 Barnes Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Barnes Corners, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 25 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

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Barnes Corners between 1995 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnes Corners in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2005Tornado (F1)Barnes Corners$30,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBarnes Corners$1,000Trees and wires knocked down.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
New Boston4.0 miles20
Bellwood7.3 miles20
Rector8.6 miles20
Copenhagen9.3 miles19
Hooker9.4 miles20
Clark Corners9.5 miles19
Parkers9.7 miles20
Windecker10.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943043. 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.

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.