Sanfords Four Corners, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Le Ray town. It lies in ZIP code area 13616. The Survey maps it on the Black River quadrangle. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

Sanfords Four Corners within Jefferson County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sanfords Four Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Sanfords Four Corners, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1903 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1948 USGS Black River quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Black River quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gouverneur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

250 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Sanfords Four Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 51 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	137
Arson/incendiarism	51
Debris and open burning	23
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sanfords Four Corners: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Grass Pond Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence	1945
Watertown Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Watertown Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Black River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Black River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Black River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Felts Mills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Freeman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
La Fargville Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Calcium	0.9 miles	21
Black River	2.5 miles	21
Pamelia Center	3.5 miles	20
Felts Mills	3.9 miles	21
Huntingtonville	4.0 miles	23
Evans Mills	4.2 miles	21
La Raysville (historical)	4.2 miles	21
East Watertown	5.1 miles	23

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 Sanfords Four Corners	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22083368	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 2096995. 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.