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Corfu, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pembroke town. It lies in ZIP code area 14036. The Survey maps it on the Corfu quadrangle. 689 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Corfu within Genesee County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Corfu, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Corfu, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

On record in Corfu

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Corfu fell from 709 to 689 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
2010709
2020689-20 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

105 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Corfu between 1999 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning14
Natural13
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee 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 Corfu: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Limestone Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corfu in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
January 1999Flash FloodCorfu$80,000no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodCorfu$75,000no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodCorfu$25,000no account filed
October 1999Thunderstorm WindCorfu$15,000no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodCorfu$15,000no account filed
July 1997HailCorfu$13,000no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindCorfu$10,000Trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCorfu$2,000Trees and wires downed with over 1,000 customers without power from Pembroke to Batavia.
September 2012HailCorfu-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Longwood2.0 miles19
Brick House Corners2.3 miles17
Fargo2.8 miles17
Pembroke3.0 miles17
Pembroke Center3.3 miles19
Sawens3.5 miles19
Lehigh3.7 miles19
North Darien3.7 miles19

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 CorfuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453113The 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 947446. 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.