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Delphi Falls, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pompey town. It lies near Stockham Hill. The Survey maps it on the Oran quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Delphi Falls within Onondaga County

Then and now

1897 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delphi Falls, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Delphi Falls, surveyed 1897

On record in Delphi Falls

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Delphi Falls between 1993 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined30
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Delphi Falls: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cazenovia Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delphi Falls in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 1 hail, 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindDelphi Falls$8,000A swath of 70 trees were blown down. There was structural damage done to a home as a large tree branch fell through a garage.
July 2008HailDelphi Falls-A 55 mph wind gust was also estimated.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
Pompey Center3.8 miles20
Fabius4.8 miles20
Pompey5.6 miles28
Salem Corner5.9 miles20
Swift Corner6.1 miles27
Log City (historical)6.2 miles28
Watervale6.2 miles20
Berwyn6.8 miles27

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 Delphi FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5254398The 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 970067. 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.