BlockDarien Center, New York
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Darien town. It lies in ZIP code area 14040. The Survey maps it on the Corfu quadrangle. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1984The 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.
Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Attica quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Attica quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Corfu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Corfu quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Darien Center between 2002 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 7 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Darien Center: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Chick Well | Salt | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darien Center in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Hail | Darien Center | $60,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darien Center | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darien Center | $10,000 | Several trees down with damage to camping equipment at Darien Lakes State Park. |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Darien Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19831780 | The 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 948029. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.