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Etna, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Dryden town. The Survey maps it on the Ithaca East quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Etna 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 Etna, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Etna, surveyed 1900

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

83 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Etna between 1999 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural12
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Natural1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
17 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Etna: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Talari Co-Talsons Jr. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Etna in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2021Tornado (EF1)Etna$49,000A tornado touched down in Yellow Barn State Forest, east of Yellow Barn Road. It continued to travel eastward and passed over Card Road. It then struck a farm on Irish Settlement Road, snapping and uprooting multiple trees. Then it continued eastward and crossed through a wooded section of Beam Hill Road. The tornado then struck the yard of a house on the west side of Route 38, causing significant tree damage to the yard, a shed to blow off its foundation, and a blow-down of a fence. The tornado then crossed Route 38 just south of Dryden, before lifting just east of the road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindEtna$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEtna$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEtna-A tree blown down by thunderstorm winds blocked Lower Creek Road.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindEtna-Several trees and tree limbs blown down.
July 2010HailEtna-no account filed
July 2010HailEtna-no account filed
July 2006HailEtna-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
Fall Creek Parke0.3 miles27
Country Manor Estates0.6 miles27
West Dryden2.7 miles24
Freeville2.8 miles24
Willow Glen3.0 miles27
Varna3.6 miles27
Ellis4.1 miles27
Hibbards Corner4.4 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 EtnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5404681The 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 949724. 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.