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South Danby, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Danby town. It lies in ZIP code area 14883. The Survey maps it on the Willseyville quadrangle.

South Danby within Tompkins County

Then and now

1900 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Danby, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of South Danby, surveyed 1900

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.

Fires near this place

56 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of South Danby between 1999 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning7
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
15 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBALD HILL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of South Danby: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Spencer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of Spencer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ward's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Danby in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Danby$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires down on Fisher Settlement Rd.

Every storm recorded in Tompkins 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
Danby3.7 miles28
White Church4.0 miles28
West Danby4.5 miles33
Caroline Depot4.9 miles28
Brooktondale5.7 miles27
Stratton5.9 miles33
Besemer6.4 miles27
Bethel Grove6.9 miles27

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 Q122553670The 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 965733. 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.