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Beaver Meadow, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Otselic town. It lies in ZIP code area 13832. It lies near Cole Hill. The Survey maps it on the Otselic quadrangle.

Beaver Meadow within Chenango County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

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 Beaver Meadow, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Beaver Meadow, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Meadow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2005Natural2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beaver Meadow: 2 past producers. 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
Otselic Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smyrna Town Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Meadow in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 tornado. 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
August 2003Tornado (F1)Beaver Meadow$100,000An F1 tornado touched down int he town of Smyrna. The tornado first touched down on Beaver Meadow Road about 2 miles east of the village of Beaver Meadow in the southwest quarter of the town of Smyrna. The tornado tracked down a hill and across Law Road before it lifted near Hopkins Road. The F1 damage was limited to an area near Law Road where numerous trees were sheared off and/or uprooted. One home received significant damage with windows blown out and its roof peeled off. This same home was pushed four feet off its foundation. In addition on this property, a shed was destroyed and the garage's metal roof was peeled off. All along the tornado's path there were numerous trees downed and snapped off.

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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
Stanbro0.9 miles19
North Pharsalia3.7 miles19
Kirk4.3 miles19
Bonney4.3 miles19
Upperville4.5 miles18
Otselic Center4.5 miles19
Seventh Day Hollow4.7 miles16
Otselic4.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943399. 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.