McCoon Crossing, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Columbia town. It lies in ZIP code area 13439. It lies near Monkey Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Millers Mills quadrangle.

McCoon Crossing within Herkimer 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 McCoon Crossing, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of McCoon Crossing, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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 Millers Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Millers Mills quadrangle1:31680
1946 USGS Millers Mills quadrangle1:25000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Millers Mills quadrangle1:25000
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

43 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of McCoon Crossing between 1999 and 2018, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 1999	Smoking	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 McCoon Crossing: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Millers Mill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer 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
Youngs Crossing	1.5 miles	18
Millers Mills Crossing	2.3 miles	18
Millers Mills	2.3 miles	18
South Columbia	2.4 miles	18
Columbia Center	2.6 miles	18
Cedarville Station	3.7 miles	18
Chepachet	3.8 miles	18
Cedarville	4.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972778. 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.