Drews Corner, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waddington town. It lies in ZIP code area 13694. The Survey maps it on the Waddington quadrangle.

Drews Corner within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Drews Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Drews Corner, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1905 USGS Waddington quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1942 USGS Waddington quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Waddington quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Waddington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

112 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Drews Corner between 2000 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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	67
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dalton Crossing	2.0 miles	15
Waddington	2.6 miles	16
Halfway House Corners	2.8 miles	16
Chase Mills	4.2 miles	15
Chipman	5.0 miles	16
Turnbull Corner	5.1 miles	16
Sucker Brook (historical)	5.7 miles	15
Dishaw	6.3 miles	15

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 Q122598872

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 976259. 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.