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Enfield, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Enfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 14850. It stands on Fivemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mecklenburg quadrangle.

Enfield within Tompkins County

Then and now

1893 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Enfield, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Enfield, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 35 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

45 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Enfield between 1993 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural4
Smoking4
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
14 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Enfield: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Bailey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Havlik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Havlik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Landstrom Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Tompkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enfield in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
August 2013Flash FloodEnfield$75,000A bridge was washed out at the intersection of Harvey Hill Road and State Route 327.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindEnfield$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindEnfield$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto Waterburg Road.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindEnfield-Several trees were blown down.
May 2014HailEnfield-no account filed

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
Bostwick Corners1.0 miles35
Applegate Corner1.5 miles37
Van Dorn Corner2.4 miles37
Kennedy Corner3.3 miles37
Trumbull Corners3.6 miles35
Christian Hill3.7 miles35
Whipple Corner3.8 miles37
Krum Corner4.6 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 974010. 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.