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North Urbana, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 14840. The Survey maps it on the Hammondsport quadrangle.

North Urbana within Steuben County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 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 Urbana, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of North Urbana, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

76 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of North Urbana between 1997 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew York Forest RangersURBANA FIRE
1 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of North Urbana: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
C.Champlin No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Bradford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sleve PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of Tyrone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Tyrone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winding Stairs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Winding Stairs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Urbana in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 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
October 2021Flash FloodNorth Urbana$50,000Houses flooding along Coryell Road in the Town of Wayne.
January 2010Flash FloodNorth Urbana$10,000Excessive rainfall caused a mudslide along County Route 16 in the Urbana area.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Urbana$8,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a house. The roof over the porch was damaged and a window was broken.

Every storm recorded in Steuben 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
Glen Grove2.3 miles23
Urbana3.0 miles23
Hammondsport3.0 miles23
Grove Springs4.1 miles23
Bradford4.2 miles22
Rheims4.7 miles17
Sylvan Beach4.7 miles21
Pleasant Valley5.0 miles17

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 Q122570716The 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 972877. 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.