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Port Gibson, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Manchester town. It lies in ZIP code area 14537. The Survey maps it on the Palmyra quadrangle. 405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Port Gibson within Ontario County

Then and now

1899 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Port Gibson, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Port Gibson, surveyed 1899

On record in Port Gibson

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

Population over time

2 figures

Port Gibson fell from 453 to 405 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
2010453
2020405-48 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

178 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Port Gibson between 2003 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined104
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning10
Natural10
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Port Gibson: 8 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Blackmar's QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Port Gibson QuarriesGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Winslow Heth QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Abam Cleason Co. Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Graf PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit No. 11Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mackenzie Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Palmyra PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Smith Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Gibson in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2008HailPort Gibson$50,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPort Gibson$2,000Several trees were reported down.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindPort Gibson-no account filed
September 2017Thunderstorm WindPort Gibson-no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindPort Gibson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ontario 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
Bunker Hill3.4 miles21
Gypsum3.8 miles21
Manchester Center4.2 miles21
Clifton Springs5.1 miles21
Manchester5.9 miles21
Phelps Junction6.0 miles21
Knickerbocker Corner6.0 miles21
Shortsville6.4 miles21

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 Port GibsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6083028The 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 970494. 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.