Alpine Junction, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Cayuta town. It lies in ZIP code area 14824. It lies near Pony Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Alpine quadrangle.

Alpine Junction within Schuyler County

Then and now

1893 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Alpine Junction, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Alpine Junction, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 34 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.

1893 USGS Ithaca quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Ithaca quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
1905 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Alpine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Alpine quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

64 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Alpine Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
2 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 June 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schuyler County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Alpine Junction: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
D.Hager No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Jackson Hollow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jackson Hollow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pertl Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pertl Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wickham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Schuyler 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
Cayuta	1.1 miles	34
Alpine	1.5 miles	34
Catharine	4.2 miles	31
Odessa	5.1 miles	31
Cayutaville	6.7 miles	35
Deckertown	7.3 miles	31
Montour Falls	8.1 miles	31
Smith Valley	8.5 miles	35

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 Q112190985

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 972163. 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.