Cook Corners, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sheridan town. It lies in ZIP code area 14048. The Survey maps it on the Dunkirk quadrangle.

Cook Corners within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cook Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Cook Corners, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1900 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

227 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Cook Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 37 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	122
Debris and open burning	38
Arson/incendiarism	37
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	11
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
9 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cook Corners: 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Allegheny Ludlum/ Dunkirk, N.Y.	Iron	Plant
	Johnson No.1 Well	Salt	Prospect

Every working 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	1.3 miles	17
Reed Corners	3.2 miles	19
Hawkins Corner	3.6 miles	17
Center Corners	3.8 miles	18
Dunkirk	4.0 miles	19
Forestville	4.3 miles	17
Laona	4.6 miles	19
Fredonia	4.7 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947344. 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.