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Bennetts Corners, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Camillus town. It lies in ZIP code area 13031. It lies near Nose Hill. The Survey maps it on the Camillus quadrangle.

Bennetts Corners within Onondaga County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bennetts Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Bennetts Corners, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

151 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Bennetts Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined86
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural11
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Bennetts Corners: 8 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Skaneateles Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Camillus QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Halfway QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Limeledge Quarry DivisionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marcellus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nine Mile Creek QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Skaneateles QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast Producer
Warners Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bennetts Corners in 1 storm report in 2008: 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 2008HailBennetts Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
Sweets Crossing0.9 miles24
Halfway1.6 miles24
Oswego Bitter1.8 miles24
Martisco2.0 miles24
Marcellus Falls2.5 miles24
Shepard Settlement2.9 miles28
Camillus3.2 miles24
Memphis3.4 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943684. 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.