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Dogtail Corners, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Dover town. It lies in ZIP code area 12594. It stands on Deuel Hollow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Dover Plains quadrangle.

Dogtail Corners within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dogtail Corners, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Dogtail Corners, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 35 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

106 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Dogtail Corners between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,181 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestry94 KENT ROAD (RT7)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Dogtail Corners: 24 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Iron, Manganese, Titanium, Metal. 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
Dover Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Kent Limonite MineIron, Manganese, Zinc, Titanium, MetalPast ProducerLimonite, Melanterite, Pyrolusite, Siderite, Sphalerite
Roebling Mica, Feldspar, Beryl MineMica, Feldspar, GemstonePast ProducerMuscovite, Plagioclase, Quartz
Wingdale Pit and PlantPeatPast ProducerPeat
Wingdale QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Wingdale Quarry and MillTitanium, MetalPast Producer
Dover Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerLimonite, Siderite
Deuel Hollow Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Deuel Hollow Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Deuel Hollow MineIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dogtail Corners in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDogtail Corners-A tree was downed near Wingdale.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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 Dover1.8 miles35
Webatuck1.9 miles35
Wiley Shelter2.3 miles35
Wingdale2.7 miles35
Dover Furnace3.2 miles35
Oniontown4.6 miles35
Bains Corner5.0 miles35
Powell Park5.2 miles35

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 Q122549089The 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 948542. 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.