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Retsof, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in York town. It lies in ZIP code area 14533. It stands on Bairds Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leicester quadrangle. 326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Retsof within Livingston County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Retsof, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Retsof, surveyed 1904

Population over time

2 figures

Retsof fell from 340 to 326 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
2010340
2020326-14 (-4%)

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

132 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Retsof between 2000 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 39 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/undetermined51
Arson/incendiarism39
Smoking19
Debris and open burning10
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Retsof: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Natural Gas. 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
Reynolds QuarryFlagstoneProducer
E.Whitney No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
J.B.Murphy No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
Old Retsof ShaftHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
Retsof MineHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
Fuller ShaftSaltProducer
Geo.F.Hudson WellSaltPast Producer
J.J.Gilmore No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Livingston Salt Co.Well No.1SaltPast Producer
Phoenix Salt WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Retsof in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindRetsof$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Greigsville1.0 miles23
Wadsworth1.4 miles23
Piffard1.6 miles24
York Center (historical)2.5 miles24
York2.5 miles23
Teed Corners2.7 miles23
Craigs2.9 miles23
Tryons Corners3.6 miles23

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 RetsofAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6106838The 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 962414. 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.