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Arkport, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hornellsville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14807. It stands on Lime Kiln Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arkport quadrangle. 745 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,184 feet above sea level.

Arkport within Steuben County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arkport, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Arkport, surveyed 1915

Population over time

2 figures

Arkport fell from 844 to 745 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010844
2020745-99 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Arkport between 1994 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined48
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking8
Natural7
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2018Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
15 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arkport: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
State SourceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arkport in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindArkport$5,000An isolated thunderstorm produced damaging winds which downed trees.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindArkport$3,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a few trees being knocked over in the area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindArkport$3,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a few trees being knocked over in the area.
June 2025Flash FloodArkport$2,000Flooding was reported on Avenue of Oaks blocking intersection with Sharps Hill Road.
June 2025Flash FloodArkport$2,000Water and debris were flooding Addison Street.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindArkport$2,000A barn collapsed due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2000HailArkport-no account filed
May 2000HailArkport-no account filed
May 2000HailArkport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Steuben 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
Webbs Crossing2.1 miles21
Fremont3.7 miles21
North Hornell3.8 miles21
Hornell5.0 miles21
Beachville5.4 miles21
South Dansville5.7 miles21
Big Creek6.7 miles21
South Hornell6.7 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on ArkportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453003The 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 942554. 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.