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Cranes Corners, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Litchfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13357. It lies near Joslin Hill. The Survey maps it on the Millers Mills quadrangle.

Cranes Corners within Herkimer County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cranes Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cranes Corners, surveyed 1907

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

49 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Cranes Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2010Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
15 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 Cranes Corners: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Litchfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Litchfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bono PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ferdula PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Golf Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Millers Mill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Herkimer 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
Jersalem Hill1.3 miles17
Gulph2.5 miles24
Elizabethtown2.7 miles18
North Columbia2.8 miles18
Days Corners3.4 miles17
Cedar Lake3.5 miles17
Cedarville3.8 miles18
Corrado Corners4.0 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970041. 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.