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Fairmount, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Camillus town. It lies in ZIP code area 13219. It lies near Gillis Hill. The Survey maps it on the Syracuse West quadrangle. 10,248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

Fairmount within Onondaga County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fairmount, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fairmount, surveyed 1895

Population over time

2 figures

Fairmount grew from 10,224 to 10,248 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
201010,224
202010,248+24 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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

329 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 329 fires within 5 miles of Fairmount between 2000 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 53 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/undetermined158
Arson/incendiarism53
Equipment and vehicle use31
Natural30
Smoking19
Debris and open burning13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga 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 Fairmount: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Camillus QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Nine Mile Creek QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast Producer
Warners Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga 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
Westvale1.0 miles29
Stanley Manor1.1 miles24
West Genesee Terrace1.2 miles24
Sherwood Knolls1.3 miles24
Westview Manor1.6 miles24
Split Rock1.8 miles29
Solvay1.8 miles29
Westerlea1.9 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 FairmountAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2838749The 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 949818. 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.