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Amboy Center, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Amboy town. It lies in ZIP code area 13493. It lies near Patchen Hill. The Survey maps it on the Panther Lake quadrangle.

Amboy Center within Oswego County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Amboy Center, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Amboy Center, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

68 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Amboy Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 51 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/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning8
Smoking5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreNew York Forest RangersDUTCH HILL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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 Amboy Center: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Pappa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amboy Center in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2021Thunderstorm WindAmboy Center$15,000Widespread damage was reported in the Town of Amboy.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindAmboy Center$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down on Route 17A.
September 2010FloodAmboy Center$5,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAmboy Center$500Tree downed in the Town of Amboy.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
East Amboy1.7 miles20
Mud Hill1.7 miles20
West Amboy2.5 miles20
Carterville3.3 miles20
North Constantia3.4 miles20
Panther Lake3.7 miles20
North Amboy3.8 miles20
Williamstown4.7 miles20

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 Q122546624The 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 942420. 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.