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Exeter Corner, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Exeter town. It lies in ZIP code area 13315. It lies near Angel Hill. The Survey maps it on the Schuyler Lake quadrangle.

Exeter Corner within Otsego 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 Exeter Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Exeter Corner, 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

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Exeter Corner between 1999 and 2018, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 1999Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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
Schuyler Lake2.5 miles17
Lidell Corners3.0 miles17
Dogtown3.7 miles17
Snowdon3.9 miles17
Pecktown3.9 miles16
West Exeter4.1 miles16
Huntly Corners4.5 miles16
Richfield4.9 miles17

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 Q122594748The 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 949788. 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.