Youmans Corner, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Unadilla town. It lies in ZIP code area 13849. It lies near Sisson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gilbertsville quadrangle.

Youmans Corner within Otsego County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Youmans Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Youmans Corner, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1915 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Unadilla quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Gilbertsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Gilbertsville 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 Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Youmans Corner between 1993 and 2019, burning about 61 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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	36
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 July 2007	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 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sand Hill	1.7 miles	17
Mallory Corner	2.5 miles	17
Wells Bridge	2.5 miles	16
Unadilla Center	2.9 miles	17
Rootville	3.8 miles	17
Otego	4.3 miles	15
Freer Corner	4.8 miles	17
Frone Corner	5.1 miles	17

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 Q122557706

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 973305. 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.