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Fair Haven, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sterling town. It lies in ZIP code area 13156. It lies near Wilde Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fair Haven quadrangle. 760 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 285 feet above sea level.

Fair Haven within Cayuga County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fair Haven, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fair Haven, surveyed 1900

On record in Fair Haven

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fair Haven grew from 745 to 760 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.

YearPeople Change
2010745
2020760+15 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

89 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Fair Haven between 2003 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes4
Natural4
Smoking2

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
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fair Haven: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Fair Haven Iron Company PropertyIronPast Producer
Furnaceville Iron Co.IronPast Producer1887
North of WolcottIronPast Producer
Swartout OpeningIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fair Haven in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 4 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Fair Haven1 hurt, $50,000Multiple mobile homes were damaged. Two were destroyed. One injury was reported.
June 2019FloodNorth Fair Haven$100,000no account filed
July 2019FloodNorth Fair Haven$50,000no account filed
May 2019FloodNorth Fair Haven$50,000no account filed
July 2006Flash FloodFair Haven$50,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$30,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodFair Haven$25,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$20,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$15,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$10,000Multiple trees and power lines downed across Fair Haven.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Fair Haven$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2019FloodNorth Fair Haven$10,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Fair Haven$10,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$4,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Fair Haven$2,000Trees and wires downed in the town of Fair Haven.
January 1998Flash FloodFair Haven$1,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodFair Haven$1,000no account filed
May 2017HailNorth Fair Haven-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
North Fair Haven1.1 miles24
Sterling3.1 miles24
Fintches Corners4.0 miles24
Crocketts4.0 miles24
Sterling Valley4.4 miles24
Martville4.7 miles24
North Victory5.2 miles24
North Sterling5.6 miles24

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 Fair HavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452851The 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 949802. 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.