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Bridgewater, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bridgewater town. It lies in ZIP code area 13313. The Survey maps it on the Cassville quadrangle. 516 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Bridgewater within Oneida County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

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 Bridgewater, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bridgewater, surveyed 1907

On record in Bridgewater

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

Population over time

2 figures

Bridgewater grew from 470 to 516 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010470
2020516+46 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Bridgewater between 1995 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural4
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 September 2013Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 June 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Bridgewater: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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
Welch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West Winfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgewater in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
July 2004Flash FloodBridgewater$20,000Flash flooding occurred in two trailer parks in Bridgewater. Brookside Mobile Trailer Park near Route 20 was flooded when a creek came out of its banks. 6 trailers were in danger of being washed away. Fitches Trailer Park near Gulf Road flooded when a stream came out of its banks. The flooding caused an oil spill from a 275 gallon tank. Culverts were unclogged and the water went down fast enough that little damage occurred at either park. Radar estimates were 3 to 4 inches.
August 2004Flash FloodBridgewater$10,000Heavy rain caused flash flooding. Water covered roads. Lots of ponding of water on roads. State Route 20 closed in a few locations. Rainfall rates were estimated at 2 to 3 inches an hour. The area got 2 to 4 inches of rain.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBridgewater$5,000A severe thunderstorm moved across northern Oneida county around midday. Trees and wires were blown down in Bridgewater at 12:50 pm. A hay wagon was overturned in Vienna at 12:55 pm EDT.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBridgewater$2,000Several trees were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBridgewater-A large tree was blown down.
June 2011HailBridgewater-no account filed
May 2006HailBridgewater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
North Bridgewater3.1 miles17
Hobin Corners3.2 miles17
Pine Village Estates3.7 miles17
Babcock Hill4.0 miles17
Ritchfield Junction4.5 miles17
Cassville4.6 miles17
Greens Crossing5.6 miles17
Five Corners6.4 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on BridgewaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461734The 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 944731. 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.