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Ludlowville, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lansing town. It lies in ZIP code area 14882. It stands on Salmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ludlowville quadrangle.

Ludlowville within Tompkins County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

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 Ludlowville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ludlowville, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 25 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

33 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Ludlowville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3

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 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ludlowville: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. 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
Cayuga Crushed Stone Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cayuga Mine and MillHalitePast ProducerHalite
Cayuga Crushed Stone IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cayuga Crushed Stone Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Twin Bridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Twin Bridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cargill, Inc., Div. of Cayuga RockSaltPlant
Cayuga Rock Salt CoreSaltProspect
Joe Farkas No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludlowville in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
September 2012HailLudlowville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tompkins 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
Myers1.0 miles25
South Lansing2.1 miles25
Norten2.1 miles25
Portland2.3 miles25
Midway2.4 miles24
Terpening Corners2.6 miles24
Willow Creek3.0 miles25
Asbury3.1 miles24

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 Q122566525The 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 956146. 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.