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Center Village, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Colesville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13787. It stands on Belden Brook. The Survey maps it on the Afton quadrangle.

Center Village within Broome 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 Center Village, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Center Village, surveyed 1905

On record in Center Village

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

89 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Center Village between 1999 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural8
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Center Village: 1 producer. 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
Windsor Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broome 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
Harpursville1.0 miles17
Creekside Village1.4 miles14
Nineveh1.9 miles17
Doraville1.9 miles17
Ouaquaga3.4 miles14
East Windsor3.9 miles17
Belden4.1 miles14
Vallonia Springs4.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946204. 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.