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Young Hickory, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Troupsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 14885. The Survey maps it on the Troupsburg quadrangle.

Young Hickory within Steuben County

Then and now

1926 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Young Hickory, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Young Hickory, surveyed 1926

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

33 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Young Hickory between 1999 and 2018, burning about 216 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3

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
25 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 April 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Young Hickory: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Young Hickory in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash flood. 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
July 2021Flash FloodYoung Hickory$10,000Roads were reported to be flooded and washed out.

Every storm recorded in Steuben 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
Alice2.2 miles17
Lila2.9 miles17
Troupsburg3.4 miles17
Rexville3.6 miles17
Rough and Ready4.4 miles17
Wileyville5.0 miles17
South Troupsburg5.2 miles17
Barney Mills5.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973306. 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.