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Yatesville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Potter town. It lies in ZIP code area 14527. The Survey maps it on the Potter quadrangle.

Yatesville within Yates County

Then and now

1903 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yatesville, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Yatesville, surveyed 1903

On record in Yatesville

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Yatesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning20
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Yatesville: 6 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium. 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
Transelco/ Penn Yan, N.Y.REE, ZirconiumPlant
Benton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Benton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hays PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nicolo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Potter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Potter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roberts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yates County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yatesville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 2 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
May 2014Flash FloodYatesville$400,000Several locations along Guyanoga Road were flooded and impassable.
May 2014Flash FloodYatesville$30,000Water was reported rushing through a house on Adams Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindYatesville-A tree was blown down.

Every storm recorded in Yates 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
Friend2.5 miles21
Guyanoga3.6 miles21
Havens Corner4.0 miles22
Voak4.1 miles21
Potter4.3 miles21
Bluff Point4.4 miles22
Penn Yan4.5 miles22
Keuka Park4.6 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973303. 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.