Lewis Corners, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Granby town. It lies in ZIP code area 13126. It lies near Battle Island. The Survey maps it on the Fulton quadrangle.

Lewis Corners within Oswego County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lewis Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Lewis Corners, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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.

1900 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:31680
1955 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

218 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Lewis Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 49 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	109
Arson/incendiarism	49
Debris and open burning	31
Smoking	12
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
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
8 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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
Bundy Crossing	1.9 miles	22
Pember Corners	2.2 miles	24
Minetto	2.3 miles	22
Seneca Hill	2.5 miles	22
Granby Center	2.6 miles	23
Dexterville	3.2 miles	24
North Hannibal	3.7 miles	24
Furniss	3.9 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955247. 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.