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Wellington Corner, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Onondaga town. It lies in ZIP code area 13215. The Survey maps it on the Marcellus quadrangle.

Wellington Corner within Onondaga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wellington Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Wellington Corner, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

240 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Wellington Corner between 2000 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 36 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/undetermined108
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural20
Smoking16
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Wellington Corner: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. 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
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast Producer
Camillus QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Limeledge Quarry DivisionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marcellus PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marcellus Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Marcellus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nine Mile Creek QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga 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
Cards Corners0.5 miles28
Cedarvale1.6 miles27
Kellys Corners2.0 miles24
Loomis Hill2.2 miles29
Howlett Hill2.4 miles24
Split Rock3.2 miles29
Nichols Corners3.4 miles27
Sherwood Knolls3.5 miles24

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 Q122563042The 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 969034. 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.