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Fly Summit, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cambridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 12834. It lies near Herrington Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge quadrangle.

Fly Summit within Washington County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fly Summit, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Fly Summit, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Fly Summit between 1993 and 2018, burning about 91 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 June 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 June 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 June 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 May 2015Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fly Summit: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Dolomite, Limestone, General. 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
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer1845
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1845

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fly Summit in 2 storm reports in 2025: 2 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 2025Thunderstorm WindFly Summit-Trees and wires were downed along multiple sections on County Route 74 as well as Center Cambridge Road and Brownell Road in the Town of Easton.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindFly Summit-A tree and wires were downed on Vly Summit Road in the Town of Easton.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Archdale1.4 miles27
West Cambridge1.6 miles29
Center Cambridge1.9 miles29
North Cambridge2.0 miles27
South Easton3.0 miles30
South Cambridge3.4 miles29
North Easton3.5 miles26
Easton3.8 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950346. 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.