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Conquest, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Conquest town. It lies in ZIP code area 13140. The Survey maps it on the Montezuma quadrangle.

Conquest within Cayuga County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Conquest, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Conquest, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 26 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

42 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Conquest between 2003 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4

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 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2020Natural4.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
12 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conquest in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 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 2006Flash FloodConquest$300,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindConquest$50,000no account filed
June 2002Flash FloodConquest$35,000no account filed
January 2008Thunderstorm WindConquest$10,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindConquest$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindConquest$10,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindConquest$5,000Trees and wires were reported down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindConquest$2,000Trees and wires downed in the Town of Conquest.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindConquest$2,000Multiple trees downed in the town of Conquest.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindConquest$2,000Trees and powerlines were reported downed.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindConquest$1,000Trees downed on Cooper Street.

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Spring Lake2.1 miles24
Emerson2.3 miles27
Hard Point2.3 miles26
Mosquito Point2.9 miles26
Howland3.4 miles26
North Port Byron4.8 miles26
Fox Ridge5.1 miles26
Cato5.1 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947315. 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.

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.