Podunk, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ulysses town. It lies in ZIP code area 14886. The Survey maps it on the Trumansburg quadrangle.

Podunk within Tompkins County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Podunk, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Podunk, surveyed 1902

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.

1902 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1942 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Podunk between 1995 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 1995	Smoking	1.0 acres	Green Mountain National Forest	not named
19 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Trumansburg	1.3 miles	23
Waterburg	1.5 miles	23
Halseyville	1.6 miles	23
Taughannock Falls	2.7 miles	25
Jacksonville	2.8 miles	25
Christian Hill	3.2 miles	35
Lansing Station	4.6 miles	25
Willow Creek	4.6 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 974049. 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.