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Ninety Six Corners, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Remsen town. It lies in ZIP code area 13438. It stands on Beaver Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hinckley quadrangle.

Ninety Six Corners within Oneida County

Then and now

1897 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ninety Six Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Ninety Six Corners, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Ninety Six Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersN SHORE HINKLEY LAKE
22 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHINCKLEY RESERVOIR
23 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBRANDY LAKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ninety Six Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Swamp Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ninety Six Corners in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNinety Six Corners$33,500As per drone footage shared by Broadcast Media, severe thunderstorm winds knocked down a large swath of trees along Route 365. Several trees fell on multiple homes and at least one vehicle.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNinety Six Corners$2,000A strong thunderstorm knocked down trees onto wires.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hinckley2.5 miles25
Prospect4.0 miles26
Remsen5.0 miles26
Trenton Falls6.0 miles26
Honnedaga6.3 miles25
Barneveld7.0 miles26
East Steuben7.6 miles25
Mapledale7.8 miles26

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 Q122570850The 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 958607. 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.

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.