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Copes Corner, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Butternuts town. It lies in ZIP code area 13776. It stands on Dry Brook. The Survey maps it on the Gilbertsville quadrangle.

Copes Corner within Otsego County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Copes Corner, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Copes Corner, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Copes Corner between 1995 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Copes Corner: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Number 17 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 17Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Otsego 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
Frone Corner2.0 miles17
Gilbertsville2.5 miles17
Mallory Corner3.1 miles17
Unadilla Center3.2 miles17
Heslops Corner3.5 miles17
Rootville4.2 miles17
Toll Corner4.6 miles17
Freer Corner5.2 miles17

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 Q122549353The 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 972343. 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.