Emerson, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Conquest town. It lies in ZIP code area 13140. The Survey maps it on the Weedsport quadrangle.

Emerson within Cayuga County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Emerson, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Emerson, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1902 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1943 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

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 Emerson between 2002 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined	29
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2020	Natural	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emerson in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Emerson	$2,000	Trees and wires downed on Emerson Rd.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Emerson	$1,000	Trees were down onto Hard Point Road.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Emerson	$1,000	Trees were reported down at Lemon School Road and Emerson Road. The report was relayed by the NWS Binghamton office.

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mosquito Point	2.3 miles	26
Conquest	2.3 miles	26
Hard Point	2.7 miles	26
North Port Byron	3.4 miles	26
Howland	3.9 miles	26
North Weedsport	4.1 miles	27
Centerport	4.2 miles	27
Spring Lake	4.3 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972448. 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.

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.