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Halls Corner, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Orangeville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14569. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw quadrangle.

Halls Corner 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 Halls Corner, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Halls Corner, 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.

Fires near this place

47 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Halls Corner between 2003 and 2017, burning about 38 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Halls Corner: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bradley Salt Co.Salt WellSaltPast Producer
Miller Salt Co.Salt WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halls Corner in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Heavy RainHalls Corner-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Orangeville Center2.8 miles19
Warsaw3.4 miles17
Martinsville3.7 miles17
Thompsons Crossing3.8 miles19
Wethersfield Springs3.8 miles17
South Warsaw4.1 miles17
Dutch Flats4.1 miles16
Beehive Crossing4.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952067. 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.

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.