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Fall Creek Parke, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Dryden town. It lies in ZIP code area 14850. The Survey maps it on the Ithaca East quadrangle.

Fall Creek Parke 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 Fall Creek Parke, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Fall Creek Parke, 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

92 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Fall Creek Parke between 1999 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning16
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking5
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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fall Creek Parke: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, 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
University QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
University QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working 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
Etna0.3 miles27
Country Manor Estates0.6 miles27
West Dryden2.8 miles24
Freeville3.1 miles24
Willow Glen3.2 miles27
Varna3.2 miles27
Ellis4.0 miles27
Hibbards Corner4.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122545625The 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 2514390. 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.