Stairs Corners, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Perth town. It lies in ZIP code area 12010. The Survey maps it on the Broadalbin quadrangle.

Stairs Corners within Fulton County

Then and now

1899 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stairs Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Stairs Corners, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1899 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1945 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

184 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Stairs Corners between 1994 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 14 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	97
Debris and open burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	10
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
9 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
Hill Corners	1.7 miles	22
Beyers Corners	2.1 miles	24
Perth	2.3 miles	22
Honeywell Corners	2.5 miles	22
West Galway	2.7 miles	21
Hoeseville	2.7 miles	21
Steele Corners	4.1 miles	22
Mills Corners	4.2 miles	21

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 Q122597150

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 966208. 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.