Black Corners, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Arkwright town. It lies in ZIP code area 14062. The Survey maps it on the Forestville quadrangle.

Black Corners within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Black Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Black Corners, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1900 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1941 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Forestville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Black Corners between 2003 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 June 2011	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 Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Black Corners: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Johnson No.1 Well	Salt	Prospect

Every working recorded in Chautauqua 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
Hubbards Park	1.3 miles	17
Arkwright	2.2 miles	17
Griswold	2.5 miles	16
Hamlet	3.7 miles	16
Cowdens Corner	4.3 miles	19
Forestville	5.2 miles	17
Shumla	5.4 miles	19
Balcom	5.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944095. 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.