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Shutter Corners, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wright town. It lies in ZIP code area 12157. It stands on Louse Kill. The Survey maps it on the Schoharie quadrangle.

Shutter Corners within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shutter Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Shutter Corners, surveyed 1898

On record in Shutter 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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

96 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Shutter Corners between 1996 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 July 2004Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Shutter Corners: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Strontium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite. 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
Schoharie Pyrite DepositSulfur, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Masick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Masick Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Schoharie No. 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schoharie No. 3 Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Schoharie Strontianite DepositStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Schoharie Strontianite OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Schoharie 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
Gallupville1.4 miles21
Schoharie3.1 miles22
Old Central Bridge4.7 miles22
Schoharie Junction5.0 miles22
Central Bridge5.2 miles22
Esperance5.9 miles20
Middleburgh6.8 miles21
Howes Cave7.0 miles22

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 Q122571940The 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 965196. 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.