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Applegate Corner, New York

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Enfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 14850. It stands on Fivemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ithaca West quadrangle.

Applegate Corner within Tompkins 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 Applegate Corner, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Applegate Corner, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 37 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

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Applegate Corner between 1993 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
14 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins 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 Applegate Corner: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bailey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tompkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this place

4 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Applegate Corner in 4 storm reports between 2025 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2026Flash FloodApplegate Corner$5,000Officials reported Mecklenburg Road flooded in several spots.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindApplegate Corner$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires along Mecklenburg Road.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindApplegate Corner$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down 10 to 12 trees near Hillendale Golf Course.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindApplegate Corner$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on South Applegate Road.

Every storm recorded in Tompkins 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
Van Dorn Corner1.1 miles37
Enfield1.5 miles35
Kennedy Corner2.1 miles37
Bostwick Corners2.3 miles35
Whipple Corner2.3 miles37
Krum Corner3.1 miles37
Christian Hill3.7 miles35
Hayt Corner3.8 miles37

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 Q122541819The 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 942520. 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.