BlockDurso Corner, New York
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Durham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12405. It stands on Fall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hensonville quadrangle.
Then and now
1893 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Durso Corner
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Hervey Street Road Stone Arch Bridgelisted 2008 · 0.6 miles away- Dunixlisted 2018 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 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.
- 1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1945 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
112 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Durso Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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 | 54 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
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 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 27 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | YELLOWJACKET FIRE |
| 27 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 19 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 27 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 26 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hervey Street | 0.6 miles | 23 | |
| East Windham | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| South Durham | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Sunside | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Cornwallville | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| East Durham | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Acra | 4.2 miles | 21 | |
| Freehold | 4.4 miles | 21 |
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 Q122549981 | 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 948842. 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.