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Cicero Center, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cicero town. It lies in ZIP code area 13039. It lies near Hall Island. The Survey maps it on the Cicero quadrangle.

Cicero Center within Onondaga County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cicero Center, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Cicero Center, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

138 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Cicero Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined58
Arson/incendiarism28
Natural15
Debris and open burning11
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cicero Center in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2021Flash FloodCicero Center$5,000Flash flooding reported across Bull Street in Cicero.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCicero Center$2,000Numerous trees were knocked down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCicero Center-High winds were reported from a marina on the south shore of Oneida Lake.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
Brown Center0.7 miles29
Valentines Beach1.1 miles29
Lower South Bay1.9 miles29
Sandy Bay2.9 miles29
Forest Beach3.9 miles29
Cicero4.2 miles29
Schepps Corners4.8 miles29
Collamer5.2 miles29

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 Q122561545The 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 946695. 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.