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Pittsford, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pittsford town. It lies in ZIP code area 14534. It stands on West Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pittsford quadrangle. 1,419 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

Pittsford within Monroe County

Then and now

1895 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pittsford, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pittsford, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

On record in Pittsford

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pittsford grew from 1,355 to 1,419 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,355
20201,419+64 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

656 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 656 fires within 5 miles of Pittsford between 2000 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 64 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/undetermined308
Smoking126
Arson/incendiarism64
Natural59
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor7

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Pittsford: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Penfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mendon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mendon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pittsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pittsford PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Redman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Redman PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsford in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2007LightningPittsford1 hurtno account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPittsford$1,200,000no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodPittsford$150,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPittsford$20,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds near Pittsford. A power transformer was damage near South Main Street and Mile Post Lane.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindPittsford$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPittsford$15,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPittsford$10,000Law enforcement received multiple reports of trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindPittsford$6,000no account filed
July 2004HailPittsford$5,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPittsford$1,500Tree and wires downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPittsford$1,000A tree was reported down onto power lines near Jefferson and Eastview Terrance.
November 2025HailPittsford-Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
East Rochester1.9 miles26
Harper Park Rochester2.5 miles31
Bushnell Basin3.0 miles26
Penfield3.4 miles26
Twelve Corners3.7 miles31
Fairport3.9 miles26
Hannans Corner4.1 miles26
Cobbs Hill4.3 miles31

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 PittsfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7199499The 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 960648. 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.