North Sterling, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sterling town. It lies in ZIP code area 13156. It lies near Sidmans Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hannibal quadrangle.

North Sterling within Cayuga County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Sterling, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of North Sterling, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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.

1900 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS Hannibal quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Hannibal quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Hannibal quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Hannibal quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

76 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of North Sterling between 2000 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	43
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	10
Other causes	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
13 September 2017	Smoking	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sterling Valley	1.5 miles	24
Moon Beach	2.2 miles	22
Crocketts	2.9 miles	24
Sterling	3.2 miles	24
North Fair Haven	4.8 miles	24
Fair Haven	5.6 miles	24
Martville	6.2 miles	24
Fintches Corners	6.3 miles	24

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 Q122559489

The 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 972875. 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.