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Waterburg, 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.

Waterburg 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 Waterburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Waterburg, surveyed 1902

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

64 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Waterburg between 1995 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning10
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2004Missing 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterburg in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 1 flash flood, 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 2013Flash FloodWaterburg$10,000Harvey Hill Road and Fish Road were closed due to flooding.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWaterburg$5,000A few large trees were knocked down.

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
Podunk1.5 miles23
Christian Hill1.9 miles35
Trumansburg2.6 miles23
Halseyville2.9 miles23
Jacksonville3.2 miles25
Taughannock Falls3.9 miles25
Butternut Park5.0 miles30
Applegate Corner5.1 miles37

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.

Wikidata item Q122548443The 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 974073. 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.