Elmira, New York

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• Chemung County

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1895 1992

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 12 of 33 shown

• Newtown BattlefieldNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972
• John Brand Jr. Houselisted 2010
• John Brand Sr. Houselisted 2010
• Buildings at 104-116 West Water St.listed 2008
• Chemung Canal Bank Buildinglisted 1978
• Chemung County Courthouse Complexlisted 1971
• Elmira Civic Historic Districtlisted 1980
• Elmira Coca-Cola Bottling Company Workslisted 1997
• Elmira College Old Campuslisted 1984
• Emmanuel Epsicopal Churchlisted 1998
• Erste Deutsche Evangelische Kirchelisted 2007
• Alexander Eustace Houselisted 2012

Every listing in Chemung County

Elmira fell from 29,200 to 26,523 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.

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.

• 1895 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 461 fires within 5 miles of Elmira between 1993 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 73 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dewittsburg Park Housing Project
• East Elmira
• West Elmira
• Carriage Estates
• Hathorn Court
• Hoffman Plaza Housing Project

Every fire recorded in Chemung County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Elmira: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Chemung County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmira in 55 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 36 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Chemung County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949577. 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.