Solon, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Solon town. It lies in ZIP code area 13040. It stands on Pritchard Brook. The Survey maps it on the McGraw quadrangle.

Solon within Cortland County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Solon, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Solon, surveyed 1903

On record in Solon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Hatheway Homesteadlisted 1978

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1903 USGS Cortland quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1944 USGS Mc Graw quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Mc Graw quadrangle1:24000, 4 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

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Solon between 1995 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
19 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solon in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on Maybury Road.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	$5,000	A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Cortland County knocking down trees on Telegraph Road in Solon at 2:55 pm EDT.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	$2,000	Straight line wind damage began at 8:05 pm about a mile east of Virgil, and headed into Tuller Hill State Forest. Occasional tree branches of generally 6 to 12 inches in diameter were broken off of some hardwood oaks and maples. They were generally blown in a northeast direction on the north side of the path and in a southeast direction on the south side of the path...consistent with a diverging pattern and straight line winds. The path of occasional snapped branches, some a foot or more in diameter, continued from Pipeline and Snyder Hill Roads, across the Tioghnioga River. It then crossed Route 11 and Interstate 81. This includes a large fallen branch that blocked Route 11. Up to this point, peak wind gusts are estimated to have reached 70 to 80 mph.\|\|Tree damage was much more sporadic and minor as the winds progressed east of Interstate 81, through the northern portion of Hoxie Gorge State Forest, with lesser winds of around 60 mph. However, by around 8:25 pm, winds then accelerated downhill across an open field 2 miles south-southwest of Solon. A small, old wooden power pole was blown down along Stramba Road, where winds in this exposed area are estimated to have reached 75 to 80 mph.

Every storm recorded in Cortland 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
Maybury Mills	2.6 miles	23
Taylor Valley	3.4 miles	16
East Freetown	3.5 miles	16
McGraw	4.0 miles	23
Cheningo	4.4 miles	17
Taylor Center	5.0 miles	16
Freetown Corners	5.3 miles	23
Blodgett Mills	6.1 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965627. 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.