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Hemlock, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Livonia town. It lies in ZIP code area 14466. It stands on Kinney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Honeoye quadrangle. 455 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Hemlock within Livingston County

Then and now

1901 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hemlock, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Hemlock, surveyed 1901

On record in Hemlock

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

Hemlock fell from 557 to 455 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
2010557
2020455-102 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

114 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Hemlock between 1993 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHEMLOCK LAKE TRES FIRE
24 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHEMLOCK LAKE DOS FIRE
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHEMLOCK LAKE FIRE
13 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hemlock: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Livonia Salt ShaftSaltPast Producer
Livonia Salt WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hemlock in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindHemlock$15,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHemlock$12,000Thunderstorm winds down large trees and limbs in the Main Street area of Hemlock.
June 1998HailHemlock$8,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHemlock$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHemlock$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Jacksonville (historical)0.8 miles22
Glenville1.0 miles22
Bosley Corner1.9 miles22
Livonia Center2.5 miles23
South Livonia3.8 miles23
Livonia3.8 miles23
Foots Corners5.0 miles22
Cedarcrest5.1 miles23

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 HemlockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5894303The 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 952553. 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.