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.
Then and now
1900 to 1985The 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.


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
- Cottage Farmlisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresFair 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 745 | |
| 2020 | 760 | +15 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1943 USGS Fair Haven quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Fair Haven quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Fair Haven quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
89 since 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 2 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 1 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Haven Iron Company Property | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Furnaceville Iron Co. | Iron | Past Producer | 1887 | |
| North of Wolcott | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Swartout Opening | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Fair Haven | 1 hurt, $50,000 | Multiple mobile homes were damaged. Two were destroyed. One injury was reported. |
| June 2019 | Flood | North Fair Haven | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Flood | North Fair Haven | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | North Fair Haven | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Fair Haven | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Haven | $30,000 | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Fair Haven | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Haven | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Haven | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Haven | $10,000 | Multiple trees and power lines downed across Fair Haven. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Fair Haven | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires down. |
| August 2019 | Flood | North Fair Haven | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Fair Haven | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Haven | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Haven | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Haven | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Haven | $4,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Fair Haven | $2,000 | Trees and wires downed in the town of Fair Haven. |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Fair Haven | $1,000 | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Fair Haven | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | North Fair Haven | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Fair Haven | 1.1 miles | 24 | |
| Sterling | 3.1 miles | 24 | |
| Fintches Corners | 4.0 miles | 24 | |
| Crocketts | 4.0 miles | 24 | |
| Sterling Valley | 4.4 miles | 24 | |
| Martville | 4.7 miles | 24 | |
| North Victory | 5.2 miles | 24 | |
| North Sterling | 5.6 miles | 24 |
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 Haven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3452851 | The 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.








