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Meads Corners, New York

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kent town. It lies in ZIP code area 10512. It lies near Sheep Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Oscawana Lake quadrangle.

Meads Corners within Putnam County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Meads Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Meads Corners, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 40 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

190 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Meads Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 261 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined91
Natural20
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism19
Smoking18
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony5

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
6 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Meads Corners: 18 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Arsenic, Stone. 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
Canada Magnetite MineIron, Titanium, MetalPast ProducerMagnetite
Canada MineIron, TitaniumPast Producer
Chalmers Fahnestock Uranium ClaimsUraniumProspect
Ludingtonville Pyrite ProspectIron, SulfurProspect
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Sulfur, Iron, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Copper, Iron, SulfurPast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-025StonePast Producer
Ludingtonville Pyrite ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrenceMetamorphic
Putman Co. As MineArsenic, Iron, SulfurPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Putnam 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
Dicktown (historical)0.6 miles40
Allen Corners1.4 miles35
Richardsville1.4 miles40
Hortontown1.8 miles40
Farmers Mills1.8 miles35
Carmel Park Estates1.9 miles35
Kent Cliffs2.1 miles40
Berkshire Terrace3.6 miles35

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 Q122553764The 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 956892. 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.