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Covert, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Covert town. It lies in ZIP code area 14847. The Survey maps it on the Trumansburg quadrangle.

Covert within Seneca County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Covert, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Covert, surveyed 1902

On record in Covert

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

44 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Covert between 1995 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural3
Smoking1

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
8 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 August 1995Smoking1.0 acresGreen Mountain National Forestnot named
19 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covert in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCovert$20,000A severe thunderstorm moved across the southern part of the county during the mid afternoon. Large trees and power poles were blown down in Covert at 3:00 pm EDT.
June 2025Flash FloodCovert$5,000Water and debris were reported over roadways in the area.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCovert$5,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCovert$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree and wires onto a road.
July 2010HailCovert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seneca 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
Osgood Landing2.0 miles23
Cold Springs2.1 miles23
Bergen Beach2.7 miles23
Holton Beach3.0 miles23
Interlaken Beach3.5 miles23
Interlaken3.6 miles23
Kidders4.5 miles23
Townsendville5.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 974004. 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.