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Ketchums Corners, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Stillwater town. It lies in ZIP code area 12170. The Survey maps it on the Quaker Springs quadrangle.

Ketchums Corners 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 Ketchums Corners, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Ketchums Corners, 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

156 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Ketchums Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined79
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresSaratoga National Historical ParkGROZNIAK
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 August 1997Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

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 Ketchums Corners: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Jamaica PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Normanskill GritsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1925

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
Wayville0.9 miles27
Stillwater Center1.7 miles30
Maple Shade1.8 miles27
Snake Hill2.2 miles27
Cedar Bluffs2.2 miles27
Deans Corners2.8 miles27
Saratoga Lake3.2 miles27
Waters Edge3.3 miles27

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 Q122541820The 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 954560. 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.