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Walkers Corners, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lenox town. It lies in ZIP code area 13032. The Survey maps it on the Canastota quadrangle.

Walkers Corners within Madison County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Walkers Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Walkers Corners, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

66 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Walkers Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
18 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Walkers Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
West Stockbridge Hill QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walkers Corners in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWalkers Corners$6,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Whitelaw1.2 miles24
South Bay2.8 miles26
Messenger Bay2.9 miles24
Oniontown3.0 miles23
Gees Corner3.0 miles24
Canastota3.1 miles23
Oneida Lake Beach East3.2 miles24
East Boston3.5 miles23

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 Q122545663The 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 973200. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.