Smith Corners, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stark town. It lies in ZIP code area 13407. The Survey maps it on the Van Hornesville quadrangle.

Smith Corners within Herkimer 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 Smith Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Smith Corners, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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 Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Van Hornesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Van Hornesville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Smith Corners between 2003 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 April 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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
Deck	1.4 miles	16
Newville	2.5 miles	16
Paines Hollow	2.7 miles	16
Van Hornesville	3.9 miles	16
Edicks	4.2 miles	16
Starkville	4.7 miles	16
Indian Castle	5.4 miles	22
Jacksonburg	5.6 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965474. 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.