Forest Home, New York
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Ithaca town. It lies in ZIP code area 14850. It lies near Comstock Knoll. The Survey maps it on the Ithaca East quadrangle. 1,168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1900 to 1992The 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.


On record in Forest Home
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
Forest Home Historic Districtlisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresForest Home grew from 572 to 1,168 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 572 | |
| 2020 | 1,168 | +596 (+104%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Dryden quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1906 USGS Catatonk quadrangle1:125000
- 1949 USGS Ithaca East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ithaca East quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Ithaca East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
139 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Forest Home between 2001 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined | 68 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2016 | Natural | 1.3 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Forest Home: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| University Quarry | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Brooktondale Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Ithaca Deep Well No.1 | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Ithica Salt Co. Plant | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Pit Number 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Pit Number 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Remington Company Plant | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Remington Salt Well | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| University Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cayuga Heights | 1.1 miles | 27 | |
| East Ithaca | 1.1 miles | 27 | |
| Varna | 1.6 miles | 27 | |
| Ithaca | 1.8 miles | 27 | |
| Renwick | 1.9 miles | 27 | |
| Lansing | 2.2 miles | 27 | |
| South Hill | 2.2 miles | 27 | |
| Hibbards Corner | 2.6 miles | 27 |
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 Forest Home | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461071 | The 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 950403. 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.










