Jobs Corner, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 14843. The Survey maps it on the Haskinville quadrangle.

Jobs Corner within Steuben County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jobs Corner, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Jobs Corner, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1915 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Haskinville quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Haskinville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Jobs Corner between 1997 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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	10
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 June 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 May 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 Steuben 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 Jobs Corner: 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
	G.H.Losey No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben 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
Haskinville	1.7 miles	20
Big Creek	2.3 miles	21
Greenville	3.1 miles	20
Howard	3.5 miles	21
Butcher Corner	3.5 miles	21
Fremont	3.8 miles	21
Bloomerville	5.6 miles	19
Beachville	5.6 miles	21

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 Q122595332

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 972668. 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.