Towers Corners, New York

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Porter town. It lies in ZIP code area 14174. It stands on Fourmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Niagara quadrangle.

Towers Corners within Niagara County

Then and now

1950 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Towers Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Towers Corners, surveyed 1950

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

1950 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Ft Niagara quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

63 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Towers Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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	44
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara 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
Fort Niagara Beach	1.6 miles	9
Blairville	1.7 miles	27
Youngstown	2.3 miles	27
Youngstown Estates	2.5 miles	27
Harrison Grove	2.8 miles	25
Porter Center	2.8 miles	28
Collingwood Estates	2.9 miles	27
Tryonville	3.0 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 967696. 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.