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Center Cambridge, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cambridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 12816. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Bridge quadrangle.

Center Cambridge within Washington County

Then and now

1897 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Center Cambridge, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Center Cambridge, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

91 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Center Cambridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Cambridge in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCenter Cambridge-A tree was downed on wires on County Route 59 in the Town of Cambridge.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCenter Cambridge-Trees were reported down on Center Cambridge Road in Cambridge due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
West Cambridge1.4 miles29
Fly Summit1.9 miles27
North Cambridge2.1 miles27
South Cambridge2.4 miles29
Archdale3.0 miles27
Lee3.0 miles29
Oak Hill3.2 miles29
South Easton3.7 miles30

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 Q122543596The 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 946191. 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.

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.