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Painted Post, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Erwin town. It lies in ZIP code area 14870. It stands on Hodgmans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle.

Painted Post within Steuben County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Painted Post, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Painted Post, surveyed 1914

On record in Painted Post

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

256 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Painted Post between 1992 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined124
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning27
Smoking27
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2006Smoking2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2020Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresNew York Forest RangersWEST HILL FIRE
28 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
22 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben 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 Painted Post: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium. 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
Corning PlantZirconiumUnknown
Canada Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Coopers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Corning PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Painted Post in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindPainted Post$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and wires.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPainted Post$6,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees. Trees were also knocked over in the locations of Riverside and Hornby.
August 2025Flash FloodPainted Post$5,000Several roadways were reported to be flooded in Painted Post.
August 2025Flash FloodPainted Post$5,000Hodgmans Creek was out of its banks and flooding nearby roads.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPainted Post$5,000Structural damage occurred to buildings.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPainted Post$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPainted Post$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires over a road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPainted Post$2,000Large tree limbs were broken in the Painted Post area.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindPainted Post$1,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a tree onto Victory Highway.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPainted Post-Several trees were knocked down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPainted Post-Large branches were broken.
May 2007HailPainted Post-no account filed
July 2007HailPainted Post-no account filed
August 2007HailPainted Post-no account filed
August 2007HailPainted Post-no account filed

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
Riverside0.7 miles23
Gang Mills1.4 miles23
Denmark2.2 miles23
Corning2.5 miles23
Coopers Plains2.9 miles23
Gibson3.7 miles23
South Corning4.1 miles22
Erwins4.4 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959764. 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.