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Union Springs, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springport town. It lies in ZIP code area 13160. It lies near Frontenac Island. The Survey maps it on the Union Springs quadrangle. 1,075 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Union Springs within Cayuga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Union Springs, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Union Springs, surveyed 1899

On record in Union Springs

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Union Springs fell from 1,197 to 1,075 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
20101,197
20201,075-122 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

41 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Union Springs between 2003 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Smoking1
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Union Springs: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Seneca QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Seneca Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cayuga Junction QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Cross Roads Station QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Hibiscus Point QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindUnion Springs$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Farleys1.5 miles27
Powers Corner2.0 miles27
Cayuga Junction2.2 miles27
Cross Roads2.7 miles26
Bunker3.4 miles27
Levanna4.0 miles27
Oakwood4.2 miles26
Mapleton5.0 miles26

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 Union SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453096The 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 968217. 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.