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Millers Corner, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Middlebury town. It lies in ZIP code area 14591. It lies near Kingsley Knoll. The Survey maps it on the Wyoming quadrangle.

Millers Corner within Wyoming County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millers Corner, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Millers Corner, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Millers Corner between 2002 and 2017, burning about 34 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2010Smoking1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Millers Corner: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Natural Gas, Bromine. 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
Middlebury BrinefieldBrominePast ProducerBrine
J.Q.Adams No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
S P Cox #2 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
W.A.Hawley No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
Dobson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Welch Bros PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M.Chase No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Middlebury BrinefieldSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming 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
Ewells Corner1.1 miles19
Wyoming2.0 miles19
Beehive Crossing2.1 miles19
Saltvale2.3 miles19
Millers Crossing2.4 miles19
Lambs Corner2.5 miles19
Dale2.6 miles19
Thompsons Crossing2.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972800. 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.