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Tompkins Corners, New York

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Putnam Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 10579. It stands on Wiccopee Brook. The Survey maps it on the Oscawana Lake quadrangle.

Tompkins Corners within Putnam County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 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 1986
Topographic sheet of Tompkins Corners, surveyed 1892

On record in Tompkins 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

15 surveys from 40 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

404 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 404 fires within 5 miles of Tompkins Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 317 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 45 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/undetermined217
Arson/incendiarism45
Smoking38
Debris and open burning36
Natural25
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony13
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremony15 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Tompkins Corners: 35 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Titanium, Stone. 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
Croft Magnetite MineIron, SulfurPast ProducerMagnetite, Pyrite
Croft MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Denny MineTitanium, IronProspect
Nathaniel Bradley's Limonite PitsIron, ManganesePast ProducerLimonite
Granitic Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-027StonePast Producer
N. Bradley's Limonite PitIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Nathaniel Bradley's Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Wood Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wood Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tompkins Corners in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindTompkins Corners$2,500A tree was down across the northbound lanes of the Taconic State Parkway near the Pudding Street Exit.
July 2023Flash FloodTompkins Corners-All lanes flooded on Taconic State Parkway near Tompkins Corners.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Bullet Hole0.9 miles40
West Mahopac2.0 miles41
Mahopac Mines2.3 miles40
Mahopac Falls2.8 miles41
Oscawana Corners3.2 miles40
Stillwater3.2 miles41
Sunnybrook3.2 miles40
Gilbert Corners3.6 miles40

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.

Wikipedia article on Tompkins CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888452The 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 967637. 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.