Briggs Corner, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Denmark town. The Survey maps it on the West Lowville quadrangle.

Briggs Corner within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

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 Briggs Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Briggs Corner, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1902 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS West Lowville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1943 USGS West Lowville quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

61 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Briggs Corner between 1995 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Smoking	2

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
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Briggs Corner: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Harper Ferry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Castorland	1.6 miles	20
Naumburg	2.9 miles	18
Denmark	3.0 miles	20
Harrisburg	4.2 miles	19
Deer River	4.7 miles	20
West Lowville	5.6 miles	19
New Bremen	5.7 miles	18
Dadville	5.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972259. 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.