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Rock Rift, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tompkins town. It lies in ZIP code area 13856. It stands on Chase Brook. The Survey maps it on the Readburn quadrangle.

Rock Rift within Delaware County

Then and now

1923 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rock Rift, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Rock Rift, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Rock Rift between 1997 and 2018, burning about 41 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Rift in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 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 2025Thunderstorm WindRock Rift$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRock Rift$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto Fish Brook Road.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Beerston2.8 miles17
Apex3.5 miles18
Pinesville4.6 miles17
Kerryville5.1 miles18
Readburn5.7 miles18
Kerry Siding5.7 miles16
Centerville6.2 miles18
Walton6.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973017. 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.

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.