Toziers Corner, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sheldon town. It lies in ZIP code area 14167. The Survey maps it on the Johnsonburg quadrangle.

Toziers Corner within Wyoming County

Then and now

1923 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Toziers Corner, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Toziers Corner, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1923 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1925 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Johnsonburg quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

50 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Toziers Corner between 2003 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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	27
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 June 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming 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
Sheldon Center	1.4 miles	15
Frinks Corner	2.6 miles	15
Persons Corners	2.7 miles	15
Johnsonburg	2.8 miles	14
Sheldon	3.0 miles	15
Varysburg	3.3 miles	16
Plants Corner	3.7 miles	15
North Sheldon	3.7 miles	15

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 Q122547243

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 967730. 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.