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Sonyea, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Groveland town. It lies in ZIP code area 14556. It stands on Bradner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sonyea quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Sonyea within Livingston County

Then and now

1905 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sonyea, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Sonyea, surveyed 1905

On record in Sonyea

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

110 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Sonyea between 2002 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural11
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sonyea: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Royal Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
Chester L. Mcmaster S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Chester L. Mcmaster S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sonyea in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
June 2019FloodSonyea$1,000Route 36 was closed by high water between Ridge Road and Cleveland Road.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Kysorville2.8 miles21
Groveland3.2 miles21
Shaker Crossing4.0 miles21
Tuscarora4.0 miles21
Mount Morris4.1 miles21
Groveland Corners4.3 miles21
Ridge4.6 miles22
West Sparta4.6 miles21

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 Q122542443The 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 965641. 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.