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Second Milo, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Milo town. It lies in ZIP code area 14527. The Survey maps it on the Keuka Park quadrangle.

Second Milo within Yates County

Then and now

1903 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Second Milo, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Second Milo, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

143 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Second Milo between 2002 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined94
Smoking18
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Second Milo: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, REE, Zirconium. 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
Transelco/ Penn Yan, N.Y.REE, ZirconiumPlant
J.Sanderson No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
J.T.Andrews No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Claude Pulver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Holly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Milo Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Yates County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Second Milo in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSecond Milo$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Route 54 south of Penn Yan village.
June 2025Flash FloodSecond Milo$2,000Water was reported flowing over Himrod Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSecond Milo$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on a road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSecond Milo$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a roadway.
May 2020HailSecond Milo-no account filed
July 2008HailSecond Milo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yates 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
Willow Grove1.8 miles22
Milo Center2.5 miles24
Keuka Park2.8 miles22
Milo Mills3.1 miles22
Kenka Mills3.2 miles22
Penn Yan3.3 miles22
Bluff Point3.4 miles22
Seneca Mills3.7 miles22

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 Q122561875The 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 964775. 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.