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Melrose Park, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Owasco town. It lies in ZIP code area 13021. It stands on Sucker Brook. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle. 2,141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Melrose Park within Cayuga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Melrose Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Melrose Park, surveyed 1899

On record in Melrose Park

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Melrose Park fell from 2,294 to 2,141 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
20102,294
20202,141-153 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

211 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Melrose Park between 2000 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 41 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/undetermined118
Arson/incendiarism41
Debris and open burning15
Smoking14
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 Melrose Park: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Franklin Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Franklin Street Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Harkington Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Harkington Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melrose Park in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMelrose Park$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted large trees near Townhall Road and Walker Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMelrose Park$3,000Trees were blown down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMelrose Park$1,000A few trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Sherlock Corners1.6 miles28
Shumaker Crossing1.8 miles28
Petty Corner1.8 miles28
Auburn2.1 miles28
Highland Beach2.5 miles28
Degroff2.8 miles28
Cold Spring3.4 miles28
Fleming3.7 miles26

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 Melrose ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3462042The 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 956930. 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.