Wrights Corners, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lysander town. It lies in ZIP code area 13027. The Survey maps it on the Baldwinsville quadrangle.

Wrights Corners within Onondaga County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wrights Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Wrights Corners, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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.

1900 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1943 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

166 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Wrights Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 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	92
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	11
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lamson	0.6 miles	26
Little Utica	2.3 miles	23
Hortontown	2.4 miles	23
West Phoenix	2.9 miles	26
Jacksonville	3.3 miles	23
Radisson	4.0 miles	26
Baldwinsville	4.3 miles	26
Three Rivers	4.4 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971758. 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.