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Bovina Center, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bovina town. It lies in ZIP code area 13740. It stands on Brush Brook. The Survey maps it on the Bloomville quadrangle. It stands 1,660 feet above sea level.

Bovina Center within Delaware County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bovina Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bovina Center, surveyed 1909

On record in Bovina Center

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Bovina Center between 1997 and 2016, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
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
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Bovina Center: 2 producers. 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
Bloomville Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kortright PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bovina Center in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindBovina Center$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Route 6.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBovina Center$8,000A tree fell on a car, with people trapped inside.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBovina Center$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees, blocking roads.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindBovina Center$5,000no account filed
June 2025HailBovina Center-no account filed
August 2023HailBovina Center-no account filed
August 2008HailBovina Center-no account filed
July 2008HailBovina Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Lake Delaware2.6 miles16
Bovina3.1 miles16
Andes5.1 miles16
Bloomville5.1 miles16
East Delhi5.6 miles16
New Kingston6.4 miles19
South Kortright6.6 miles16
Delhi7.1 miles16

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 Q122554344The 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 944503. 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.