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Fintches Corners, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sterling town. It lies in ZIP code area 13111. It lies near Gulf Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fair Haven quadrangle.

Fintches Corners within Cayuga County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fintches Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fintches Corners, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

114 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Fintches Corners between 1999 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Other causes4
Natural4

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
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fintches Corners: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Town of Victory PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Victory PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fair Haven Iron Company PropertyIronPast Producer
Furnaceville Iron Co.IronPast Producer1887
Swartout OpeningIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga 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
Martville0.9 miles24
North Victory1.6 miles24
Sterling3.2 miles24
Crocketts3.4 miles24
Bethel Corners3.9 miles26
Fair Haven4.0 miles24
North Fair Haven4.7 miles24
Sterling Valley4.8 miles24

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 Q122546030The 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 950080. 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.