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Fruitland, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ontario town. It lies in ZIP code area 14519. The Survey maps it on the Ontario quadrangle.

Fruitland within Wayne County

Then and now

1900 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fruitland, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Fruitland, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

163 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Fruitland between 2000 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning15
Natural15
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Natural6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fruitland: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Walworth QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Walworth Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Ontario Iron Ore Co. WorkingsIronPast Producer
Ontario OpeningsIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fruitland in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindFruitland$5,000Trees were reported down across an individuals property.
September 2024Flash FloodFruitland-Flooded parking lot along Route 104 west of Ontario.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Ontario Center1.7 miles20
Union Hill1.8 miles20
Lakeside2.2 miles12
Lincoln2.8 miles20
Ontario2.9 miles20
Orchard Grove Village Park3.7 miles20
Ontario on the Lake3.8 miles12
Furnaceville3.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950771. 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.