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Sarles Corners, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pound Ridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 10576. It stands on Mill River. The Survey maps it on the Pound Ridge quadrangle.

Sarles Corners within Westchester 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 Sarles Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sarles Corners, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 36 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

101 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Sarles Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined41
Natural18
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking5
Debris and open burning4
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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresConnecticut Division of Forestry10 BARN HILL ROAD LONG RIDGE CT
24 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sarles Corners: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Hobby QuarriesFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStoneProducer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester 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
Horseshoe Hill0.8 miles36
Scotts Corners1.0 miles36
Pound Ridge1.7 miles36
East Woods2.8 miles36
Vista3.4 miles36
Bedford4.2 miles35
Lewisboro4.5 miles36
Boutonville5.0 miles41

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 Q122568937The 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 964496. 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.