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Cedarville, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Columbia town. It lies in ZIP code area 13357. It lies near Jones Hill. The Survey maps it on the Millers Mills quadrangle.

Cedarville within Herkimer 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 Cedarville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cedarville, surveyed 1907

On record in Cedarville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

29 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Cedarville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
18 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 May 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 Cedarville: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Millers Mill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Litchfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Litchfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarville in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 debris flow, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCedarville$80,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCedarville$17,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCedarville$15,000no account filed
August 2023Debris FlowCedarville$5,000A mudslide was reported along New York Route 51 in the Town of German Flatts.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Trees and wires were downed in Cedarville.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCedarville-A tree was downed on State Route 51 south of Elizabethtown Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Trees and wires were reported down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Trees and wires were reported down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Tree was reported down on the road.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindCedarville-A tree feel on a house in Cedarville.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Trees and wires were reported down in Cedarville due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Trees and wires were reported down in Cedarville due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2011FloodCedarville-Route 51 in West Winfield was closed due to flooding between Route 20 and Chepatchet Road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Trees and wires were reported down in Cedarville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Two trees were reported down in Cedarville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008HailCedarville-Nickel size hail was reported in Cedarville during a thunderstorm.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCedarville-A tree was reported down on wires in Cedarville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCedarville-Tree limbs and wires down.
March 2014Debris FlowCedarville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Chepachet1.4 miles18
Millers Mills1.8 miles18
Millers Mills Crossing1.9 miles18
Cedarville Station2.0 miles18
Youngs Crossing2.6 miles18
Elizabethtown3.0 miles18
Birmingham Corners3.2 miles17
East Winfield3.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946160. 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.