Mungers Corners, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Palermo town. It lies in ZIP code area 13069. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle.

Mungers Corners within Oswego County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mungers Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Mungers Corners, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1900 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

110 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Mungers Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	22
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	7
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 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 Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mungers Corners: 2 producers. 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
	Gulliver Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Rawson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego 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
Wellwood	1.2 miles	21
Cribbs Corner	1.5 miles	21
Vermilion	1.8 miles	21
Clifford	1.8 miles	21
Russ Mills	2.2 miles	22
Palermo	2.6 miles	23
Upson Corners	2.9 miles	22
Catfish Corners	3.2 miles	22

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 Q122550732

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 970392. 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.