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Grovenor Corners, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Carlisle town. It lies in ZIP code area 12092. The Survey maps it on the Cobleskill quadrangle.

Grovenor Corners within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grovenor Corners, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Grovenor Corners, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Grovenor Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use12 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Grovenor Corners: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Strontium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schoharie Strontianite OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrence
Cobleskill Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Howes Cave Number 6 QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cobleskill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Howe's Cave Quarry No. 19Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Howes Cave Number 6 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Schoharie 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
Carlisle Center2.4 miles22
Howes Cave2.6 miles22
Central Bridge2.7 miles22
Bramanville3.1 miles22
Schoharie Junction3.1 miles22
Old Central Bridge3.2 miles22
Sloansville3.4 miles20
Barnerville3.6 miles22

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 Q122543990The 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 951871. 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.