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Thayer Corners, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Burke town. It lies in ZIP code area 12917. It lies near Chateaugay Chasm. The Survey maps it on the Burke quadrangle.

Thayer Corners within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Thayer Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Thayer Corners, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

84 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Thayer Corners between 1999 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2004Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Thayer Corners: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lawrence PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Willis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Adirondack Stone Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1955, 1973
Franklin-Clinton Sandstone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1958, 1962
Franklin-Clinton Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1958, 1962
Northern Adirondack QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Brayton Hollow1.6 miles14
Burke1.9 miles14
Burke Center2.1 miles14
Cooks Mill2.9 miles15
Sun3.1 miles14
Chateaugay3.3 miles16
North Burke4.8 miles15
Bellmont Center5.1 miles14

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 Q122570847The 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 967196. 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.