Pail Shop Corners, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otsego town. It lies in ZIP code area 13337. It stands on Fly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooperstown quadrangle.

Pail Shop Corners within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pail Shop Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Pail Shop Corners, surveyed 1907

On record in Pail Shop Corners

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Fly Creek Methodist Churchlisted 1996 · 0.3 miles away
Fly Creek Grange No. 844listed 2004 · 0.5 miles away
Fly Creek Historic Districtlisted 2006 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Pail Shop Corners between 1995 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
29 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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
Fly Creek	0.4 miles	19
Cattown	1.3 miles	17
Oaksville	1.3 miles	17
Toddsville	2.8 miles	19
Taylortown	2.8 miles	16
Wileytown	3.1 miles	17
Cooperstown	3.4 miles	19
Lidell Corners	3.7 miles	17

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 Q122593236

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 959759. 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.