Willow Grove, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Montezuma town. It lies in ZIP code area 13140. It stands on Crane Brook. The Survey maps it on the Montezuma quadrangle.

Willow Grove within Cayuga County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Willow Grove, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Willow Grove, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 26 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.

1902 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1943 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Weedsport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

105 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Willow Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 802 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fox Ridge	1.8 miles	26
Montezuma	2.1 miles	26
Howland	3.3 miles	26
Hard Point	4.5 miles	26
North Port Byron	4.5 miles	26
Mosquito Point	4.6 miles	26
Port Byron	4.9 miles	27
Fosterville	6.0 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971358. 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.