Hunts Corner, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Tusten town. It lies in ZIP code area 12764. It lies near Deep Hollow Hill. The Survey maps it on the Narrowsburg quadrangle.

Hunts Corner within Sullivan County

Then and now

1920 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hunts Corner, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Hunts Corner, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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.

1920 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1923 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Narrowsburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Narrowsburg quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Narrowsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Hunts Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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	31
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
16 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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 Hunts Corner: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Dexter Construction Co. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan 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
Narrowsburg	1.4 miles	25
Lava	1.4 miles	25
Newieden	2.7 miles	23
Tusten	3.4 miles	25
Cochecton Center	4.6 miles	23
Tylertown	5.0 miles	23
Lake Huntington	6.1 miles	23
Cochecton	7.2 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972640. 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.