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Corbin Corner, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Smithville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13830. It lies near Perkins Hill. The Survey maps it on the Tyner quadrangle.

Corbin Corner within Chenango 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 Corbin Corner, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Corbin Corner, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Corbin Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 June 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 June 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 May 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNORTH PUCKER ST FIRE
7 May 2015Equipment and vehicle use17 acresNew York Forest RangersNORTH PUCKER ST FIRE
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango 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
Adams Corner1.4 miles18
Dibble Corner1.5 miles18
Smithville Center2.4 miles18
Tyner3.4 miles18
East McDonough4.1 miles18
McDonough4.2 miles17
Buckley Hollow4.7 miles18
Smithville Flats5.7 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 Q122563588The 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 972344. 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.