Gees Corner, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sullivan town. It lies in ZIP code area 13032. The Survey maps it on the Jewell quadrangle.

Gees Corner within Madison County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gees Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Gees Corner, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1895 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Chittenango quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1941 USGS Jewell quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Jewell quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jewell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

50 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Gees Corner between 2000 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined	26
Arson/incendiarism	9
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4

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
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Oniontown	1.3 miles	23
Oneida Lake Beach West	1.8 miles	24
Whitelaw	2.0 miles	24
Messenger Bay	2.0 miles	24
Lakeport	2.4 miles	24
Walkers Corners	3.0 miles	23
East Boston	3.7 miles	23
Eaton Corners	3.7 miles	28

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 Q122540203

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 972531. 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.