Vorman Corners, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12093. It lies near Wharton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Summit quadrangle.

Vorman Corners within Schoharie County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vorman Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Vorman Corners, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1904 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Summit quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Summit 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

63 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Vorman Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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	21
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	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
8 September 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SUMMIT HAY BALES
9 August 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
19 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 July 2009	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 Schoharie 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
East Jefferson	1.5 miles	17
Eminence	1.6 miles	17
Jefferson	3.5 miles	17
South Jefferson	4.0 miles	17
Arabia	4.9 miles	17
Summit	5.5 miles	17
West Jefferson	5.8 miles	16
North Blenheim	6.1 miles	22

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 Q122563651

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 977495. 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.