Skanondaga Heights, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Skaneateles town. It lies in ZIP code area 13152. The Survey maps it on the Skaneateles quadrangle.

Skanondaga Heights within Onondaga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Skanondaga Heights, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Skanondaga Heights, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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.

1899 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1943 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:31680
1949 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:25000
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

70 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Skanondaga Heights between 2003 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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	27
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Niobrara County	UP RAILROAD FIRE
9 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga 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
Thornton Heights	0.3 miles	28
Thornton Grove	0.6 miles	28
Mandana	0.8 miles	28
Winding Ways	0.9 miles	28
Edgewater Park	1.6 miles	28
Jones Beach	2.2 miles	28
Woodland	2.4 miles	26
Shamrock	3.1 miles	28

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 Q122559556

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 965344. 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.