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Clifton Springs, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Manchester town. It lies in ZIP code area 14432. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clifton Springs quadrangle. 2,209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Clifton Springs within Ontario County

Then and now

1902 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clifton Springs, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Clifton Springs, surveyed 1902

On record in Clifton Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Clifton Springs grew from 2,127 to 2,209 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
20102,127
20202,209+82 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

115 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Clifton Springs between 2002 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning10
Natural5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Clifton Springs: 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Phelps QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Gravel Pit No. 11Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mackenzie Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Manchester Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Manchester PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Phelps PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Salsbury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifton Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindClifton Springs$50,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ontario 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
Gypsum1.5 miles21
Bunker Hill1.8 miles21
Knickerbocker Corner2.3 miles21
Manchester Center2.3 miles21
Phelps Junction2.9 miles21
Orleans3.3 miles21
Shortsville4.3 miles21
Phelps4.4 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 Clifton SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453183The 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 970014. 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.