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Pindars Corners, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Davenport town. It lies in ZIP code area 13860. It lies near Prosser Hollow. The Survey maps it on the West Davenport quadrangle.

Pindars Corners within Delaware County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pindars Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pindars Corners, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Pindars Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
27 July 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pindars Corners: 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Colliersville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hemlock Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Meredith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Robertson Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
West Davenport0.5 miles17
Davenport Center2.5 miles17
Shackport4.1 miles17
East Meredith4.2 miles17
Meridale5.0 miles16
Meredith5.8 miles16
West Kortright6.5 miles17
Davenport6.7 miles17

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 Q122539438The 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 974160. 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.