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Jewell Corner, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Northumberland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12831. It stands on Rice Brook. The Survey maps it on the Fort Miller quadrangle.

Jewell Corner within Saratoga County

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jewell Corner, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Jewell Corner, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Jewell Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
15 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga 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 Jewell Corner: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Stark Knob QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence1910, 1925
Unnamed DepositSilicaPast Producer1922, 1927

Every working recorded in Saratoga 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
Schuyler Heights1.4 miles28
Gansevoort1.9 miles28
Tanager Woods2.1 miles28
Forest Hills2.1 miles28
Hickory Forest2.5 miles28
Clarks Corner2.7 miles28
Stonegate2.8 miles28
Rimbrave Estates3.4 miles28

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 Q122556567The 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 972665. 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.