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North Victory, 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 13111. It lies near Gulf Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fair Haven quadrangle.

North Victory 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 Victory, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of North Victory, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

86 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of North Victory between 1999 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined47
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes3

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
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of North Victory: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
B. R. De Witt, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fair Haven Iron Company PropertyIronPast Producer
Furnaceville Iron Co.IronPast Producer1887
Swartout OpeningIronPast Producer
Town of Victory PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Victory PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

8 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Victory in 8 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 6 hail, 2 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Victory$10,000Thunderstorm winds broke trees limbs and flipped heavy, wooden furniture.
May 2013HailNorth Victory$5,000no account filed
May 2013HailNorth Victory$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Victory$1,000Trees downed at the intersection of Sterling Station Road and Fintches Corners Rd.
May 2013HailNorth Victory-no account filed
May 2013HailNorth Victory-no account filed
May 2013HailNorth Victory-no account filed
May 2013HailNorth Victory-no account filed

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
Fintches Corners1.6 miles24
Martville1.8 miles24
Bethel Corners3.2 miles26
Victory4.1 miles24
Westbury4.6 miles24
Sterling4.8 miles24
Crocketts5.0 miles24
Ira5.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122589397The 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 958938. 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.