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Pulvers Corners, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Pine Plains town. It lies in ZIP code area 12567. It lies near Prospect Hill. The Survey maps it on the Millerton quadrangle.

Pulvers Corners within Dutchess County

Then and now

1899 to 1993

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 Pulvers Corners, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Pulvers Corners, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Pulvers Corners between 1992 and 2017, burning about 122 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural7
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 July 1993Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Pulvers Corners: 21 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Lead. 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
Ancram Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, MolybdenumProducerReplacement Vein
Dakin Limonite MineIron, Manganese, ZincPast ProducerGoethite, Limonite
Dakin Limonite MineIron, Manganese, ZincPast Producer
Judge Bockee-Ward Bryant Lead MineLead, Silver, Iron, Copper, ZincPast ProducerChalcocite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Judge Bockee-Ward Bryant MineLead, Copper, Iron, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Ancram Pb MineLead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Judge Bockee-Ward Bryant Pb MineLead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Morgan Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerSiderite
Mt Riga Cheever Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerLimonite
Reynolds Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerGoethite, Limonite

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pulvers Corners in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPulvers Corners-A tree was downed on wires on Bean River Road near Pine Plains.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Hammertown3.0 miles28
Bethel3.0 miles28
Irondale3.2 miles27
Shekomeko3.4 miles27
Pine Plains3.8 miles28
Mount Riga3.9 miles27
Northeast Center4.1 miles27
Pachin Mills4.1 miles28

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 Q122545003The 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 961961. 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.