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Fox Ridge, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Montezuma town. It lies in ZIP code area 13140. It lies near Hog Island. The Survey maps it on the Montezuma quadrangle.

Fox Ridge within Cayuga County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fox Ridge, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fox Ridge, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 26 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

94 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Fox Ridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism37
Natural8
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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
Howland1.7 miles26
Willow Grove1.8 miles26
Hard Point2.8 miles26
Mosquito Point2.9 miles26
North Port Byron3.1 miles26
Montezuma3.2 miles26
Port Byron3.8 miles27
Spring Lake4.9 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972505. 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.