Clark Corners, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Denmark town. It lies in ZIP code area 13626. The Survey maps it on the Copenhagen quadrangle.

Clark Corners within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clark Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Clark Corners, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1902 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1942 USGS Copenhagen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1943 USGS Copenhagen quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Clark Corners between 1995 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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
23 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
17 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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
Copenhagen	1.0 miles	19
Harrisburg	4.2 miles	19
Denmark	4.3 miles	20
Deer River	5.0 miles	20
Bellwood	5.7 miles	20
Windecker	6.4 miles	19
Briggs Corner	6.7 miles	19
New Boston	7.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946753. 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.