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Bucks Corner, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Berlin town. It lies in ZIP code area 12138. The Survey maps it on the Taborton quadrangle.

Bucks Corner within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bucks Corner, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Bucks Corner, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 35 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Bucks Corner between 1992 and 2019, burning about 119 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined27
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bucks Corner: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jack Sweeney Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jack Sweeney Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sweener PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucks Corner in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2008Flash FloodBucks Corner$5,000Plank Road near County Route 41 was washed out due to torrential rainfall from a thunderstorm.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindBucks Corner-Personnel at the Cross Country Ski area in Bucks Corner reported that a number of trees were blown down, some up to 18 inches in diameter. The time of this report had to be estimated as it was discovered a month later in a newsletter.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
East Poestenkill3.1 miles35
Berlin3.4 miles40
Taborton3.9 miles35
Center Berlin4.1 miles40
Ives Corner4.7 miles30
Barberville5.5 miles30
East Grafton5.6 miles29
Grafton5.6 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972276. 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.