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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.

Forest Home 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 Forest Home, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Forest Home, surveyed 1900

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

Population over time

2 figures

Forest 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.

YearPeople Change
2010572
20201,168+596 (+104%)

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

139 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined68
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural17
Smoking14
Debris and open burning11
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Natural1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder 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

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
University QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
University QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Brooktondale PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ithaca Deep Well No.1SaltPast Producer
Ithica Salt Co. PlantSaltPast Producer
Pit Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pit Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Remington Company PlantSaltPast Producer
Remington Salt WellSaltPast Producer
University PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Cayuga Heights1.1 miles27
East Ithaca1.1 miles27
Varna1.6 miles27
Ithaca1.8 miles27
Renwick1.9 miles27
Lansing2.2 miles27
South Hill2.2 miles27
Hibbards Corner2.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Forest HomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461071The 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.