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Tuscarora, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Mount Morris town. It lies in ZIP code area 14510. It lies near Wildcat Gully. The Survey maps it on the Sonyea quadrangle.

Tuscarora within Livingston County

Then and now

1905 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tuscarora, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Tuscarora, surveyed 1905

On record in Tuscarora

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 21 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

108 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Tuscarora between 2002 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined54
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking8
Debris and open burning6
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
19 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tuscarora: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Chester L. Mcmaster S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Chester L. Mcmaster S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuscarora in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 3 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindTuscarora$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTuscarora$2,000Trees and power lines were reported down in the Town of Nunda.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTuscarora$2,000Trees and power lines were reported down in Mount Morris.
June 2024Flash FloodTuscarora-Road impassable due to flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Coopersville2.9 miles21
Brooks Grove3.1 miles22
Ridge3.9 miles22
Sonyea4.0 miles21
Kysorville4.3 miles21
West Sparta5.1 miles21
Nunda5.2 miles21
Byersville5.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 967991. 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.