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Flemingville, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Owego town. It lies in ZIP code area 13827. It stands on East Branch Owego Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newark Valley quadrangle.

Flemingville within Tioga County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Flemingville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Flemingville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

92 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Flemingville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tioga County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Flemingville: 5 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
C.Miller No.1 WellSaltProspect
Catatonk PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County FarmSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Owego Town of Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pipher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roots Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tioga County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flemingville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFlemingville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFlemingville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFlemingville$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Blodgett Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFlemingville-Large branches were broken off.

Every storm recorded in Tioga 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
Weltonville2.2 miles29
Owego Heights2.7 miles21
Catatonk3.2 miles21
Hamar Estates3.7 miles21
Price Home4.3 miles29
Hullsville4.3 miles29
Gaskill4.3 miles29
Owego4.3 miles21

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 Q122597689The 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 950278. 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.