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Weber Corners, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 12043. It lies near Weaver Hill. The Survey maps it on the South Valley quadrangle.

Weber Corners within Otsego 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 Weber Corners, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Weber 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.

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Weber Corners between 1992 and 2019, burning about 108 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 June 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 May 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 Otsego 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
South Valley3.0 miles17
Center Valley3.4 miles20
Gothicville3.5 miles17
Furnaceville4.2 miles17
Pleasant Brook5.7 miles18
Calcutta5.8 miles17
Decatur6.1 miles17
Maple Valley6.3 miles18

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 Q122549334The 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 968982. 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.