BlockFreetown Corners, New York
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Freetown town. It lies in ZIP code area 13803. The Survey maps it on the McGraw quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Cortland quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1944 USGS Mc Graw quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Mc Graw quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
49 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Freetown Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2001 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 13 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 28 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freetown Corners in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freetown Corners | $20,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down five trees, causing one to fall on a garage and damaging the roof. Chicken coops were also heavily damaged or destroyed. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Freetown Corners | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galatia | 2.5 miles | 22 | |
| Riverside Manor | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Messengerville | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| East Freetown | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| East Virgil | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Texas Valley | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Solon | 5.3 miles | 23 | |
| Marathon | 5.5 miles | 22 |
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 Q122592337 | 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 950678. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.