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Pine City, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Southport town. It lies in ZIP code area 14871. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Elmira quadrangle. 5,220 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Pine City within Chemung County

Then and now

1895 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine City, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Pine City, surveyed 1895

On record in Pine City

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

288 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Pine City between 1998 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined139
Arson/incendiarism37
Smoking34
Natural28
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chemung County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pine City: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 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
Dixon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maple Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Maple Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chemung County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine City in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 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 2011Thunderstorm WindPine City$50,000Trees were blown down and homes were damaged. Twenty-five homes suffered minor damage, and one house had substantial damage.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPine City$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Dry Run Road.
May 2011HailPine City-no account filed
May 2011HailPine City-no account filed
July 2008HailPine City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chemung 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
Webb Mills1.1 miles32
Rosstown1.7 miles32
Seeley Creek2.0 miles32
Southport2.9 miles32
West Elmira3.1 miles32
Golden Glow Heights3.4 miles32
Harris Hill Manor4.4 miles32
Sagetown4.7 miles32

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 Pine CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195089The 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 960425. 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.