Christian Hill, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Ulysses town. It lies in ZIP code area 14886. The Survey maps it on the Mecklenburg quadrangle.

Christian Hill 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 Christian Hill, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Christian Hill, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 35 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 Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Mecklenburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Mecklenburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

63 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Christian Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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	37
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 1995	Smoking	1.0 acres	Green Mountain National Forest	not named
19 August 2005	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 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Waterburg	1.9 miles	23
Podunk	3.2 miles	23
Enfield	3.7 miles	35
Jacksonville	3.7 miles	25
Applegate Corner	3.7 miles	37
Halseyville	4.2 miles	23
Trumansburg	4.4 miles	23
Bostwick Corners	4.6 miles	35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 974000. 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.