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Five Corners, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sangerfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13480. It lies near Cragfoot Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cassville quadrangle.

Five Corners within Oneida 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 Five Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Five Corners, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

35 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Five Corners between 2001 and 2019, burning about 18 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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
Sangerfield1.5 miles19
Stockwell1.6 miles17
Waterville2.6 miles19
Conger Corners2.8 miles19
Hobin Corners3.4 miles17
Pleasant Valley3.7 miles19
Brothertown4.6 miles19
Hanover5.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950202. 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.