Dwelly Corners, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Esperance town. It lies in ZIP code area 12066. The Survey maps it on the Esperance quadrangle.

Dwelly Corners within Schoharie County

Then and now

1896 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dwelly Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Dwelly Corners, surveyed 1896

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1896 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS Esperance quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1946 USGS Esperance quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

71 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Dwelly Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 5 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	33
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
23 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 July 2012	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 Schoharie 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
Sloansville	1.0 miles	20
Schoharie Junction	3.3 miles	22
Grovenor Corners	3.8 miles	22
Central Bridge	4.1 miles	22
Esperance	4.3 miles	20
Old Central Bridge	4.4 miles	22
Carlisle Center	5.8 miles	22
Carlisle	5.9 miles	20

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 Q122599034

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 948888. 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.