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Leicester, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Leicester town. It lies in ZIP code area 14481. It stands on Little Beards Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leicester quadrangle. 440 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Leicester within Livingston County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leicester, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Leicester, surveyed 1904

On record in Leicester

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Leicester fell from 468 to 440 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
2010468
2020440-28 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

145 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Leicester between 2000 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined68
Arson/incendiarism37
Smoking16
Natural9
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7

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 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Leicester: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Natural Gas. 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
Highway Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
K.Davis No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
Reynolds QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Old Retsof ShaftHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
Retsof MineHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
F.Eaton WellSaltPast Producer
Fuller ShaftSaltProducer
Geo.F.Hudson WellSaltPast Producer
Phoenix Salt WellSaltPast Producer
Retsof Shaft & MillSaltPlant

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leicester in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 8 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
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLeicester$20,000Law enforcement reported power poles and lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLeicester$20,000no account filed
January 2012Thunderstorm WindLeicester$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLeicester$10,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindLeicester$6,000Law enforcement reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2026Thunderstorm WindLeicester$2,000Trees and powerlines downed in the town of Leicester.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLeicester$2,000A few trees and wires downed in the Town of Leicester.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLeicester$2,000Trees and wires were reported down onto Main Street in Leicester.
October 2024HailLeicester-Observed on the north side of Leicester.

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
Cuylerville1.4 miles24
Teed Corners1.8 miles23
Pine Tavern2.1 miles23
Wadsworth3.3 miles23
Mount Morris3.4 miles21
Shaker Crossing3.6 miles21
Tryons Corners3.9 miles23
Greigsville4.0 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 LeicesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461064The 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 955183. 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.