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Church Corners, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Amsterdam town. It lies in ZIP code area 12070. The Survey maps it on the Tribes Hill quadrangle.

Church 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 Church Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Church 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.

Fires near this place

142 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Church Corners between 1994 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism19
Smoking11
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Church Corners: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Platinum, Nickel. 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
FondaPlatinum, NickelOccurrenceUnknown

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Church Corners in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 dust devil. 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
August 1996Dust DevilChurch Corners$200no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tribes Hill1.6 miles20
Fort Hunter2.5 miles20
Fort Johnson2.9 miles26
Auriesville3.9 miles20
Fultonville5.2 miles20
Fonda5.3 miles21
South Amsterdam5.5 miles26
Amsterdam5.7 miles26

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 Q122566010The 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 946676. 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.