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Days Corners, New York

17 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 13322. It lies near Dry Hill. The Survey maps it on the West Winfield quadrangle.

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

47 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Days Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
19 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2010Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Days Corners: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 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
Golf Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jones & Smith Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jones & Smith Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ludlow Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ludlow Sand and Gravel 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
Cedar Lake1.8 miles17
Jersalem Hill2.3 miles17
Gulph2.4 miles24
Norwich Corners2.5 miles24
Cranes Corners3.4 miles18
North Winfield3.5 miles17
Stewart Corners3.5 miles24
Frankfort Center5.3 miles24

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 Q122593591The 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 948089. 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.