Center Corners, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sheridan town. It lies in ZIP code area 14136. The Survey maps it on the Silver Creek quadrangle.

Center Corners within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Center Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Center Corners, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1899 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

123 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Center Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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	65
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Other causes	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 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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

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
Sheridan	2.9 miles	17
Hawkins Corner	3.6 miles	17
Cook Corners	3.8 miles	19
Silver Creek	3.9 miles	18
Keaches Corners	4.9 miles	17
Hanover Center	5.4 miles	18
Hanford Bay	5.4 miles	18
Dennison Corners	5.4 miles	17

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 Q122542480

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 2376990. 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.