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Covel Corner, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1983. It stands in South Bristol town. It lies in ZIP code area 14512. It lies near Seneca Point Gully. The Survey maps it on the Middlesex quadrangle.

Covel Corner within Ontario County

Then and now

1900 to 1983

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 Covel Corner, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Covel Corner, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Covel Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking7
Natural3
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
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
16 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
25 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 July 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontario 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 Covel Corner: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Bristol Springs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bristol Springs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pine View Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Bristol PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Bristol PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trickey Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario 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
South Bristol2.3 miles26
Grange Landing2.5 miles24
Bristol Springs3.1 miles26
Boswell Corners3.9 miles26
Bristol Center4.3 miles23
Cheshire5.3 miles24
Woodville5.5 miles25
Gladding Corner5.9 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 Q122565452The 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 972346. 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.