Griffith Corners, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pike town. It lies in ZIP code area 14066. The Survey maps it on the Pike quadrangle.

Griffith Corners within Wyoming County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

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 Griffith Corners, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Griffith Corners, surveyed 1905

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.

1905 USGS Portage quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Pike quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Pike quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Pike quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Griffith Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	10
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	6
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming 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 Griffith Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
	Gainesville Salt Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming 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
Pike	1.5 miles	17
Lamont	2.0 miles	18
East Koy	2.6 miles	18
Hardys	4.0 miles	17
Gainesville	4.8 miles	17
Portageville	5.0 miles	18
Wing	5.3 miles	17
Howes	5.7 miles	17

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 Q122546095

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 2380871. 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.