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Craigs, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in York town. It lies in ZIP code area 14533. The Survey maps it on the Leicester quadrangle.

Craigs within Livingston County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

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 Craigs, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Craigs, surveyed 1904

On record in Craigs

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

55 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Craigs between 2002 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking5
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
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
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 Craigs: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas, Halite, Potassium, 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
Old Retsof ShaftHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
C.Johnson No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasUnknown
E.Whitney No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
F.Fagan No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
J.B.Murphy No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
Fuller ShaftSaltProducer
J.Broughton No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
J.J.Gilmore No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
J.Martin No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Livingston Salt Co.Well No.1SaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craigs in 1 storm report in 2025: 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCraigs$10,000Trees, powerlines, and power poles downed in the Town of York.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
York2.1 miles23
Greigsville2.5 miles23
York Center (historical)2.7 miles24
Linwood2.8 miles24
Retsof2.9 miles23
Wadsworth3.1 miles23
Tryons Corners3.2 miles23
Inverness3.5 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972350. 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.