Pump Corners, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brutus town. It lies in ZIP code area 13080. It stands on Skaneateles Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weedsport quadrangle.

Pump Corners within Cayuga County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pump Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Pump Corners, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 27 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 Weedsport quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1943 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Pump Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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	53
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	7
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 August 2003	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 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
The Patch (historical)	2.8 miles	27
North Weedsport	3.1 miles	27
Weedsport	3.5 miles	27
Centerport	5.1 miles	27
Sennett	5.2 miles	28
Emerson	6.4 miles	27
Port Byron	6.8 miles	27
North Port Byron	7.0 miles	26

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.

Wikidata item Q122560023

The 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 2123365. 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.