Freer Corner, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Butternuts town. It lies in ZIP code area 13825. It lies near Filer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gilbertsville quadrangle.

Freer Corner within Otsego County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Freer Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Freer Corner, surveyed 1915

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.

1915 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Gilbertsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Gilbertsville 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 Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Freer Corner between 1993 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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	16
Debris and open burning	15
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
15 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 May 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 May 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 May 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Freer Corner: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Valley View Road	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Toll Corner	1.1 miles	17
Rootville	1.2 miles	17
Maple Grove	1.6 miles	15
Heslops Corner	2.3 miles	17
Frone Corner	3.3 miles	17
Gilbertsville	3.4 miles	17
Mallory Corner	3.8 miles	17
Otsdawa	4.6 miles	15

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 Q122546509

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 972511. 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.