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Butts Corner, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Davenport town. It lies in ZIP code area 13750. It stands on Middle Brook. The Survey maps it on the Davenport quadrangle.

Butts Corner within Delaware County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Butts Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Butts Corner, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Butts Corner between 1992 and 2016, burning about 52 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined37
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Butts 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hillis Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butts Corner in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindButts Corner$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and utility lines on Buck Rd.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Hoseaville0.4 miles17
Davenport1.3 miles17
Fergusonville1.5 miles17
Simpsonville2.8 miles19
Sturges Corner3.9 miles17
Kortright Center4.7 miles17
Kortright Station5.0 miles17
East Meredith5.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945396. 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.