Benton Corners, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gardiner town. It lies in ZIP code area 12525. It stands on Mara Kill. The Survey maps it on the Gardiner quadrangle.

Benton Corners within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Benton Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Benton Corners, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1903 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1903 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Gardiner quadrangle1:31680
1946 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Gardiner quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

65 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Benton Corners between 1995 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	37
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
2 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
16 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 June 2008	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 Ulster 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
Tuthilltown	1.2 miles	25
Tuthill	1.7 miles	25
Wallkill Camp	2.0 miles	25
Gardiner	2.6 miles	25
Lake Minnewaska	2.9 miles	25
Bruynswick	3.3 miles	25
Forest Glen	3.4 miles	25
Libertyville	3.4 miles	25

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 Q122591135

The 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 943709. 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.