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Trumansburg, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ulysses town. It lies in ZIP code area 14886. The Survey maps it on the Trumansburg quadrangle. 1,714 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Trumansburg within Tompkins County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Trumansburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Trumansburg, surveyed 1902

On record in Trumansburg

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Trumansburg fell from 1,797 to 1,714 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,797
20201,714-83 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

56 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Trumansburg between 1995 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning10
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 1995Smoking1.0 acresGreen Mountain National Forestnot named
19 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trumansburg in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 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
August 1998Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$80,000Severe thunderstorms continued eastward from Schuyler county and across the northern tier communities of Tompkins county. A swath of wind damage in the form of downed trees, power lines, and road signs was inflicted from Trumansburg in the far northwestern corner of the county eastward across the Ithaca area and into Groton and Dryden. A couple of homes in Dryden sustained minor roof and siding damage as they were hit by falling trees. Once the storms approached the Tompkins/Cortland county line, they began to weaken temporarily.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$30,000A cluster of severe thunderstorms moved through Tompkins county between 2:15 and 2:50 pm EDT. Numerous trees and power lines were downed as a result of these storms in Trumansburg, Ithaca, Caroline, and Speedsville.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$20,000A cluster of severe thunderstorms developed over the northwestern corner of the county. They produced sporadic wind damage early in the evening as they moved rapidly southeastward through the county. Trees and wires were downed in the Trumansburg area, then additional trees and wires were blown down in and just north of Ithaca.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$10,000A thunderstorm crossed into northwestern sections of the county and became severe. Several large trees and wires were downed in the town of Ulysses shortly before 3 pm EDT.
September 2012HailTrumansburg$10,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$5,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$2,000Trees were blown down throughout the Trumansburg and Dryden areas.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$1,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a structure.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg$1,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in a tree being knocked over.
July 2010HailTrumansburg-One tree was blown down in the village.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg-Trees and wires were also blown down in the town of Ulysses.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindTrumansburg-Trees down. Power outages.
September 2012HailTrumansburg-no account filed
September 2012HailTrumansburg-no account filed
September 2012HailTrumansburg-no account filed
July 2010HailTrumansburg-no account filed
June 2009HailTrumansburg-no account filed
June 2009HailTrumansburg-no account filed

Every storm 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
Podunk1.3 miles23
Halseyville1.9 miles23
Waterburg2.6 miles23
Taughannock Falls3.0 miles25
Jacksonville3.6 miles25
Lansing Station3.8 miles25
Christian Hill4.4 miles35
Willow Creek5.0 miles25

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 TrumansburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452563The 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 974069. 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.