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Caughdenoy, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hastings town. It lies in ZIP code area 13036. It stands on Buxton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Central Square quadrangle.

Caughdenoy within Oswego County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Caughdenoy, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Caughdenoy, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

128 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Caughdenoy between 2000 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined80
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking9
Natural8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Caughdenoy: 3 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
Capria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Phoenix Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caughdenoy in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2007Thunderstorm WindCaughdenoy$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCaughdenoy$8,000no account filed
May 2012HailCaughdenoy$5,000no account filed
September 2025Thunderstorm WindCaughdenoy$2,000Tree downed on wires and on fire at the intersection of State Route 49 and Meadowbrook Lane.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCaughdenoy$1,000Trees and wires were downed.

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
Sand Ridge1.7 miles22
Stewart Corners1.7 miles22
Roosevelt Corners2.8 miles22
Bowen Corners3.3 miles23
Central Square3.4 miles22
Pennellville3.4 miles23
Hastings Center4.2 miles22
Peat Corners4.7 miles22

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 Q122548227The 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 946072. 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.