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Fair Haven, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scott town. It lies in ZIP code area 13077. It stands on Grout Brook. The Survey maps it on the Spafford quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Fair Haven within Cortland County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 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 1986
Topographic sheet of Fair Haven, surveyed 1899

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

37 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Fair Haven between 2002 and 2018, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
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
4 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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 Fair Haven: 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
O'Toole PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fair Haven in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted or snapped multiple trees in the area.

Every storm recorded in Cortland 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
Scott3.0 miles22
Grout Mill3.2 miles22
Parker Manor3.7 miles22
East Scott5.1 miles22
Preble6.8 miles22
Little York7.5 miles22
Pratt Corners7.7 miles22
Slab City7.9 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q34672001The 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 949801. 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.