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Terpening Corners, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lansing town. It lies in ZIP code area 14882. It lies near Bean Hill. The Survey maps it on the West Groton quadrangle.

Terpening Corners within Tompkins 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 Terpening Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Terpening Corners, surveyed 1898

On record in Terpening Corners

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

58 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Terpening Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning11
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Natural1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 July 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 July 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Terpening Corners: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. 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
Cayuga Crushed Stone Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cayuga Mine and MillHalitePast ProducerHalite
Cayuga Crushed Stone IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cayuga Crushed Stone Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Twin Bridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Twin Bridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cargill, Inc., Div. of Cayuga RockSaltPlant
Cayuga Rock Salt CoreSaltProspect
Joe Farkas No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Remington Company PlantSaltPast Producer

Every working 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
South Lansing0.7 miles25
Asbury0.8 miles24
Midway0.9 miles24
Head Corners1.4 miles24
Portland2.0 miles25
Norten2.0 miles25
Howland Corners2.1 miles24
East Lansing2.4 miles24

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 Q122570491The 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 967166. 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.