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Trout Creek, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tompkins town. It lies in ZIP code area 13839. It stands on West Branch Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout Creek quadrangle. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.

Trout Creek within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Trout Creek, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Trout Creek, surveyed 1924

On record in Trout Creek

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Trout Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Natural2
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
27 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trout Creek in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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 2002LightningTrout Creek$100,000Lightning struck a barn on Herrick Hollow Road setting it on fire. The fire completely engulfed the barn. Eight pigs were killed. Four beef cattle were seriously injured.
June 2016Flash FloodTrout Creek$75,000Flooding rains caused severe culvert and road washout damage in several places along County Route 47.
June 2016Flash FloodTrout Creek$50,000Torrential rains caused flooding across Route 27 near the Village of Trout Creek.
December 2020Flash FloodTrout Creek$10,000Multiple reports received of water flooding all along the Trout Creek area.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTrout Creek$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on County Road 27 in Tompkins.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTrout Creek$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree and wires on Highway 47 in Tompkins.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTrout Creek$5,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over on county Route 27 near Trout Creek.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindTrout Creek$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over in Delaware county and in the city of Walton.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindTrout Creek$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
June 2025Flash FloodTrout Creek$2,000Flooding reported on State Highway 206.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindTrout Creek$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree, blocking a road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindTrout Creek$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds dislodged a small window from a frame and brought down a large branch.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindTrout Creek-A tree was blown down on Route 206.
July 2008HailTrout Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Tacoma2.2 miles15
Cleaver2.8 miles17
Ivanhoe3.2 miles15
Loomis3.4 miles17
East Masonville4.3 miles19
Upper Barbourville5.0 miles15
Whitman5.1 miles15
Northfield5.7 miles17

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 Trout CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740521The 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 967872. 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.

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.