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Cardiff, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in LaFayette town. It lies in ZIP code area 13084. The Survey maps it on the South Onondaga quadrangle.

Cardiff within Onondaga County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cardiff, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cardiff, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

121 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Cardiff between 2002 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined71
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural8
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cardiff: 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Limestone, General. 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
Rock Cut Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cardiff Salt WellSaltProspect
Solvay Well D-1SaltPast Producer
Solvay Well S-2SaltPast Producer
Tully Brine WellsSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cardiff in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2021Flash FloodCardiff$10,000Flash flooding reported on US-20 between Tully Farms Road and Case Hill Road. All lanes closed.
October 2021Flash FloodCardiff$10,000Flooding on Interstate 81, NY-11 and U.S. Route 20 near Exit 15 in Lafayette. All lanes closed.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindCardiff$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds snapped a tree in half and brought down wires.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
Baileys Settlement0.7 miles27
LaFayette2.0 miles28
Parc du Bois2.2 miles27
Maple Grove2.5 miles27
Onativia2.9 miles28
Big Bend3.0 miles28
Collingwood3.5 miles27
Indian Village3.9 miles27

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 CardiffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5038362The 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 945817. 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.