Lidell Corners, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Exeter town. It lies in ZIP code area 13348. It stands on Lidell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Schuyler Lake quadrangle.

Lidell Corners within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lidell Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Lidell Corners, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1907 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Schuyler Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Schuyler Lake quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Lidell Corners between 1995 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	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
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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
Schuyler Lake	1.2 miles	17
Taylortown	2.5 miles	16
Cattown	2.6 miles	17
Snowdon	2.8 miles	17
Oaksville	2.9 miles	17
Exeter Corner	3.0 miles	17
Wileytown	3.4 miles	17
Pail Shop Corners	3.7 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955285. 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.