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Oscawana Corners, New York

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Putnam Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 10579. It stands on West Branch Canopus Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oscawana Lake quadrangle.

Oscawana Corners within Putnam County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

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 Oscawana Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oscawana Corners, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 40 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

436 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 436 fires within 5 miles of Oscawana Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 567 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 52 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/undetermined236
Arson/incendiarism52
Natural39
Smoking35
Debris and open burning32
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor6

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 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremony15 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Oscawana Corners: 29 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Titanium. 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
Croft Magnetite MineIron, SulfurPast ProducerMagnetite, Pyrite
Croft MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Denny MineTitanium, IronProspect
Kinnaird Graphite Property DepositGraphiteOccurrence
Nathaniel Bradley's Limonite PitsIron, ManganesePast ProducerLimonite
Granitic Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-027StonePast Producer
N. Bradley's Limonite PitIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Nathaniel Bradley's Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Canopus MineIron, TitaniumPast Producer1912

Every working recorded in Putnam 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
Sunnybrook0.5 miles40
Crofts Corners1.1 miles41
Gilbert Corners1.6 miles40
Adams Corners1.9 miles41
South Highland3.0 miles42
Putnam Valley3.1 miles41
Tompkins Corners3.2 miles40
Lake Peekskill3.3 miles43

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 Q122567697The 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 959507. 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.