Beyers Corners, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Perth town. It lies in ZIP code area 12010. It stands on Healy Kill. The Survey maps it on the Pattersonville quadrangle.

Beyers Corners within Fulton 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 Beyers Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Beyers Corners, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1895 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1931 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1947 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Pattersonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Beyers Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 14 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/undetermined	89
Debris and open burning	29
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
West Galway	0.8 miles	21
Hoeseville	1.6 miles	21
Stairs Corners	2.1 miles	22
Honeywell Corners	3.3 miles	22
Hill Corners	3.6 miles	22
Perth	4.4 miles	22
Mills Corners	4.4 miles	21
Steele Corners	4.8 miles	22

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 Q122555782

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 943822. 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.