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.
Then and now
1924 to 1985The 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.


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
Common School 32listed 2017
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1924 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
45 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 30 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 July 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 19 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Lightning | Trout Creek | $100,000 | Lightning 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | $75,000 | Flooding rains caused severe culvert and road washout damage in several places along County Route 47. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | $50,000 | Torrential rains caused flooding across Route 27 near the Village of Trout Creek. |
| December 2020 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | $10,000 | Multiple reports received of water flooding all along the Trout Creek area. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on County Road 27 in Tompkins. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree and wires on Highway 47 in Tompkins. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $5,000 | A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over on county Route 27 near Trout Creek. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $5,000 | A 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $2,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | $2,000 | Flooding reported on State Highway 206. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree, blocking a road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds dislodged a small window from a frame and brought down a large branch. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | - | A tree was blown down on Route 206. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Trout Creek | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tacoma | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Cleaver | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Ivanhoe | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Loomis | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| East Masonville | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Upper Barbourville | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Whitman | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Northfield | 5.7 miles | 17 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48740521 | The 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.








