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Cornwallville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Durham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12418. The Survey maps it on the Hensonville quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Cornwallville within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cornwallville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cornwallville, surveyed 1893

On record in Cornwallville

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Cornwallville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined47
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 August 2008Debris and open burning4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornwallville in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2021FloodCornwallville-Hervey Street Road was closed between Stone Bridge Road and Golden Hill Road near Cornwallville due to flooding.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCornwallville-Trees were downed on Route 20.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
East Windham2.2 miles23
Durham2.3 miles22
Hervey Street2.3 miles23
Durso Corner2.7 miles23
Oak Hill2.9 miles22
East Durham3.3 miles21
South Durham4.3 miles21
West Durham4.4 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on CornwallvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5172046The 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 947485. 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.