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Mills Corners, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Broadalbin town. It lies in ZIP code area 12025. The Survey maps it on the Galway quadrangle.

Mills Corners within Fulton County

Then and now

1899 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mills Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Mills Corners, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

203 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Mills Corners between 1995 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined100
Debris and open burning49
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mills Corners in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMills Corners-Several trees were downed in Broadalbin.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMills Corners-A tree was down on wires on Ridge Road.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Steele Corners1.0 miles22
Honeywell Corners1.8 miles22
Union Mills2.0 miles22
Stever Mill2.1 miles22
Hoeseville3.1 miles21
Gorthey Corners3.5 miles22
North Broadalbin3.7 miles22
Hill Corners3.8 miles22

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 Q122589897The 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 957349. 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.