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Cheningo, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Truxton town. It lies in ZIP code area 13158. The Survey maps it on the Cuyler quadrangle.

Cheningo within Cortland County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cheningo, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cheningo, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Cheningo between 1997 and 2017, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
13 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 May 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheningo in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCheningo$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on Hickey Road and Brown Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCheningo$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Brown Road.

Every storm recorded in Cortland 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
Crains Mills3.5 miles23
New Boston3.6 miles17
Truxton3.9 miles23
Solon4.4 miles23
Taylor Center5.0 miles16
Taylor Valley5.2 miles16
Maybury Mills5.4 miles23
East Homer5.5 miles23

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 Q122548172The 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 946502. 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.