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Chili Center, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Chili town. It lies in ZIP code area 14624. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Henrietta quadrangle.

Chili Center within Monroe County

Then and now

1895 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chili Center, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Chili Center, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

450 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 450 fires within 5 miles of Chili Center between 2001 and 2020, burning about 249 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 71 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
Smoking130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined121
Arson/incendiarism71
Natural49
Debris and open burning40
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony4

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2003Smoking2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Smoking6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Chili Center: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gates QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Miller Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Union Street PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wheatland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wheatland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chili Center in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 5 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
January 1999Flash FloodChili Center$55,000no account filed
July 2005Flash FloodChili Center$50,000no account filed
June 2008HailChili Center$35,000no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodChili Center$30,000no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodChili Center$25,000no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodChili Center$25,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindChili Center$15,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds near Chili Center.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindChili Center$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindChili Center$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Coldwater2.0 miles32
Brookdale2.4 miles28
West Chili2.4 miles24
Maplewood2.7 miles28
Whites2.9 miles28
Genesee Junction3.2 miles28
Tressmar3.2 miles32
North Chili3.3 miles24

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 Q122589374The 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 946578. 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.