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Dams Corner, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Verona town. It lies in ZIP code area 13478. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Verona quadrangle.

Dams Corner within Oneida County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dams Corner, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Dams Corner, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

118 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Dams Corner between 2000 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined55
Arson/incendiarism23
Natural19
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2018Natural3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Dams Corner: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Cagwin FarmIronPast Producer
Klein FarmIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Verona Station0.4 miles25
Verona0.7 miles25
Cagwin Corners1.3 miles25
Willow Place1.3 miles25
Blackmans Corners2.6 miles25
Brewers Corner2.8 miles25
Goodrich Corners3.0 miles25
Agnes Corners3.4 miles25

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 Q122598788The 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 948008. 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.