BlockLindsley Corners, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bleecker town. It lies in ZIP code area 12078. It stands on Pinnacle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jackson Summit quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1943 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Jackson Summit quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Jackson Summit quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Jackson Summit quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lindsley Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 2 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 11 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 June 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 13 June 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 3 May 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 29 May 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 20 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lindsley Corners in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Hail | Lindsley Corners | - | Golf ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm approximately 2 miles northwest of Tomantown. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peters Corners | 1.8 miles | 22 | |
| Bleecker Center | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Bleecker | 3.7 miles | 22 | |
| Tomantown | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Jackson Summit | 5.2 miles | 22 | |
| West Bush | 6.2 miles | 21 | |
| Wheelerville | 6.3 miles | 22 | |
| Caroga Lake | 6.4 miles | 22 |
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 Q122553735 | 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 955413. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.