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Coopers Corners, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Thompson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12701. It stands on West Branch Mongaup River. The Survey maps it on the White Lake quadrangle.

Coopers Corners within Sullivan County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coopers Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Coopers Corners, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Coopers Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 208 acres in total. 17 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
Smoking84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Debris and open burning25
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Coopers Corners: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mongaup Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mongaup Valley Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Simenitsky Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Simenitsky Brothers Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
William Cooper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
William Cooper Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sullivan 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
Maplewood0.6 miles25
Mongaup Valley1.8 miles23
Bushville3.0 miles25
Harris3.2 miles25
Monticello3.4 miles25
Smallwood3.6 miles23
White Lake4.1 miles23
Kauneonga Lake4.7 miles23

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 Q122595414The 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 947398. 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.