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Oneida Corners, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Queensbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 12804. The Survey maps it on the Lake George quadrangle. It stands 376 feet above sea level.

Oneida Corners within Warren County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oneida Corners, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Oneida Corners, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

433 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 433 fires within 5 miles of Oneida Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 413 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 75 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/undetermined186
Arson/incendiarism75
Smoking55
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural22
Recreation and ceremony19
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Oneida Corners: 12 producers, 8 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension. 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
Morgan Lumber & Lime Company QuarryLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionPast Producer1882, 1975
Chestertown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Glen Falls Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chestertown QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Glens Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Glens Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jointa Stone Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Chesterton Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oneida Corners in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
May 2018Thunderstorm WindOneida Corners-Route 9L was closed between Oneida Corners and Jenkinsville Road due to downed trees and wires.
February 2016FloodOneida Corners-At least 14 basements were required to be pumped out in the town of Queensbury due to heavy rainfall and snow melt occurring over a frozen ground. Several feet of water had accumulated at the Queensbury High School parking lot and the depth of the water blocked the main exit from the lot. School was canceled on Thursday, February 25th due to the impacts from flooding. Dixon Road in Queensbury had nearly a foot of mud on it at one point due to water from Halfway Brook flowing over the roadway. In addition, Rockwell Drive in Queensbury was closed due to flooding as well.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindOneida Corners-Trees and branches were downed along Rainbow Trail in Queensbury due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOneida Corners-Numerous trees were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in North Queensbury.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Lake Sunnyside0.5 miles27
Queensbury0.8 miles28
Paradise Beach3.2 miles27
French Mountain3.7 miles27
Glens Falls4.6 miles27
Crosbyside4.6 miles29
Brayton5.2 miles29
Lake George5.7 miles29

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.

Wikipedia article on Oneida CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7093659The 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 959367. 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.