Charleston Four Corners, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Charleston town. It lies in ZIP code area 12166. It lies near Corbin Hill. The Survey maps it on the Carlisle quadrangle.

Charleston Four Corners within Montgomery County

Then and now

1896 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Charleston Four Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Charleston Four Corners, surveyed 1896

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1896 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS Carlisle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Carlisle quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Charleston Four Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	9
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
12 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Oak Ridge	3.2 miles	20
Rural Grove	3.8 miles	20
Lykers	3.9 miles	20
Charleston	4.3 miles	20
Root Center	4.3 miles	20
Currytown	5.1 miles	20
Browns Hollow	5.7 miles	18
Flat Creek	6.1 miles	18

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 Q122567399

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 946406. 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.