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Tompkins Corners, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Catlin town. It lies in ZIP code area 14845. It stands on Madison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Big Flats quadrangle.

Tompkins Corners within Chemung County

Then and now

1895 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tompkins Corners, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Tompkins Corners, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

207 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Tompkins Corners between 1994 and 2020, burning about 203 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined92
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism24
Smoking18
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2020Recreation and ceremony2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chemung County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tompkins Corners: 1 producer. 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
E.R. Wolcott Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chemung County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tompkins Corners in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
August 2013Flash FloodTompkins Corners$150,000Major flash flooding was reported in Millport with several roads washed away.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTompkins Corners$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
May 2020HailTompkins Corners-no account filed
September 2012HailTompkins Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chemung 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
Collingwood0.2 miles32
Pine Valley2.7 miles32
Fisherville3.4 miles32
Pioneer Village3.8 miles32
Midway4.3 miles31
Horseheads4.4 miles32
Post Creek4.4 miles32
Millport5.1 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 967638. 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.