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Ellis, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Dryden town. It lies in ZIP code area 14850. It lies near Snyder Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ithaca East quadrangle.

Ellis within Tompkins County

Then and now

1900 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ellis, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Ellis, surveyed 1900

On record in Ellis

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

11 surveys from 27 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

91 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Ellis between 1999 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined46
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning12
Natural11
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ellis: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Perkins Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
University QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
University QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellis in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
September 2011Flash FloodEllis$400,000Major flash flooding occurred on many roads in the Caroline-Slaterville Springs area.

Every storm recorded in Tompkins 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
West Slaterville2.4 miles27
Hibbards Corner2.5 miles27
Besemer2.5 miles27
Slaterville Springs2.6 miles27
Bethel Grove2.9 miles27
Brooktondale3.2 miles27
Varna3.6 miles27
Fall Creek Parke4.0 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949519. 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.