Watkins Glen, New York

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1992

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 9 records

• A. F. Chapman Houselisted 1997
• First Baptist Church of Watkins Glenlisted 2001
• Schuyler County Courthouse Complexlisted 1974
• St. James Episcopal Churchlisted 2012
• US Post Office-Watkins Glenlisted 1989
• Watkins Glen Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2012
• Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course, 1948-1952listed 2002
• Watkins Glen High Schoollisted 2015
• First Presbyterian Church of Watkins Glenlisted 2019

Watkins Glen grew from 1,859 to 1,863 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.

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.

• 1898 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Watkins quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Burdett quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Watkins Glen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 11 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Montour Falls
• Deckertown
• Irelandville
• Wedgewood
• Burdett
• Catharine

Every fire recorded in Schuyler County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Watkins Glen: 15 past producers, 4 producers, 3 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Natural Gas. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Schuyler County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watkins Glen in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Schuyler County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 974082. 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.