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Gridleyville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Candor town. It lies in ZIP code area 13864. It stands on Dry Brook. The Survey maps it on the Candor quadrangle.

Gridleyville within Tioga County

Then and now

1903 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gridleyville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Gridleyville, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

65 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Gridleyville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tioga County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gridleyville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ward's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tioga 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
Candor1.8 miles21
West Candor3.0 miles23
Willseyville3.1 miles28
Crum Town3.9 miles28
Hubbardtown4.1 miles21
Upper Fairfield4.6 miles25
Hamar Estates5.0 miles21
Fairfield5.0 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q122549779The 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 972572. 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.