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Silver Springs, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gainesville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14550. The Survey maps it on the Castile quadrangle. 689 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,414 feet above sea level.

Silver Springs within Wyoming County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

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 Silver Springs, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Silver Springs, surveyed 1905

Population over time

3 figures

Silver Springs fell from 844 to 689 between 2000 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
2000844
2010782-62 (-7%)
2020689-93 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

66 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Silver Springs between 2003 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3

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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Silver Springs: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine. 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
Silver Springs PlantBrominePast ProducerBrine
Geyers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
A.Kerr Bros.& Co.WellSaltPast Producer
Bradley Salt Co.Salt WellSaltPast Producer
Castile Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
Duncan Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
Gainesville Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
J.Harding No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Morton Salt Co.Salt Well No.13.SaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming 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
Silver Lake Junction0.9 miles17
Chace1.1 miles17
Rock Glen2.5 miles17
Castile2.7 miles17
Newburg2.9 miles17
Gainesville2.9 miles17
Fairview2.9 miles17
North Gainesville3.0 miles17

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 Silver SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3451804The 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 965285. 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.