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Poplar Ridge, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Venice town. It lies in ZIP code area 13026. The Survey maps it on the Genoa quadrangle. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Poplar Ridge within Cayuga 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 Poplar Ridge, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Poplar Ridge, surveyed 1902

On record in Poplar Ridge

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

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

54 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Ridge between 2003 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning14
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burning6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Debris and open burning6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Debris and open burning3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 August 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Poplar Ridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Aurora WellSaltPast Producer
J.C.Mahaney WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poplar Ridge in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 hail. 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 2010HailPoplar Ridge-Hail fell in Polar Ridge.

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
Sherwood1.6 miles26
Ledyard3.0 miles23
Scipioville3.0 miles26
Venice Center3.3 miles23
Black Rock3.3 miles23
Merrifield3.5 miles26
Scipio Center4.4 miles26
Aurora4.6 miles27

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 Poplar RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14707196The 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 960944. 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.