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Center White Creek, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in White Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 12057. It stands on Center White Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Bridge quadrangle.

Center White Creek 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 White Creek, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Center White Creek, 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

146 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Center White Creek between 1993 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 26 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
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
1 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Center White Creek: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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
Hoosick Falls Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hoosick Falls Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
White Creek Pb MineLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center White Creek in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 4 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 White Creek-A tree was downed and across Old State Road North in the Town of White Creek.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCenter White Creek-Trees were downed on State Route 22 and Andrews Road near the Hamlet of Eagle Bridge.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCenter White Creek-Trees and wires were downed from thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCenter White Creek-A tree was split over a house on Owl Kill Road.

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
Oak Hill1.4 miles29
Cambridge4.0 miles27
Ravenwood Estates4.4 miles29
Center Cambridge4.5 miles29
White Creek4.6 miles30
Coila4.7 miles27
Ash Grove4.9 miles29
South Cambridge5.3 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 969983. 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.