Merrick Corner, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Steuben town. It lies in ZIP code area 13354. The Survey maps it on the North Western quadrangle.

Merrick Corner within Oneida County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Merrick Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Merrick Corner, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1904 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1947 USGS North Western quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS North Western quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Merrick Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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	13
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
21 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 May 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 May 2016	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 May 2005	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 Oneida 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
Steuben	1.0 miles	19
Big Brook	2.3 miles	19
Steuben Valley	2.5 miles	26
East Floyd	2.6 miles	19
Fink Hollow	3.2 miles	19
Carmichael Hill	3.4 miles	19
Frenchville	3.9 miles	19
North Western	4.6 miles	19

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 Q122545316

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 972790. 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.