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Summer Hill, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Summerhill town. It lies in ZIP code area 13092. The Survey maps it on the Sempronius quadrangle.

Summer Hill within Cayuga County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Summer Hill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Summer Hill, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

79 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Summer Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 Summer Hill: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Spring Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Summerhill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Summerhill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summer Hill in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 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
September 2023Thunderstorm WindSummer Hill$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
May 2003Funnel CloudSummer Hill-Funnel cloud reported by fire chief.
June 2008HailSummer Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Halls Corner2.3 miles22
Chipman Corners2.7 miles25
Como3.5 miles22
Dresserville4.5 miles22
Locke5.8 miles25
Sempronius6.3 miles22
Morse Mill6.3 miles22
Toll Gate Corners6.4 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966758. 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.