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Apex, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tompkins town. It lies in ZIP code area 13856. The Survey maps it on the Readburn quadrangle.

Apex within Delaware County

Then and now

1923 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Apex, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Apex, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Apex between 1997 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2

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
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 May 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
26 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 April 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.7 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 April 2009Natural1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Apex: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Willis Hankins BluestoneFlagstonePast Producer
Willis Hawkins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apex in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindApex$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto State Route 268.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Kerryville2.8 miles18
Kerry Siding2.9 miles16
Kelsey3.0 miles16
Rock Rift3.5 miles18
Readburn5.5 miles18
Beerston6.1 miles17
Cadosia6.4 miles24
Centerville7.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972169. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.