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Davenport Center, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Davenport town. It lies in ZIP code area 13751. It stands on Kortright Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Davenport quadrangle.

Davenport Center within Delaware County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Davenport Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Davenport Center, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Davenport Center between 1992 and 2017, burning about 63 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined34
Natural6
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Davenport Center: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Colliersville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hemlock Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hillis Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Robertson Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davenport Center in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 6 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindDavenport Center$20,000Tree was blown down on house by thunderstorm winds.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDavenport Center$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Charlotte Creek Road.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindDavenport Center$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and powerlines on Charlotte Creek Road near Pine Lake Spur Road.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindDavenport Center$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and wires.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDavenport Center$7,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees in Davenport. One tree fell onto a house.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindDavenport Center$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a trees.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
West Davenport2.3 miles17
Pindars Corners2.5 miles17
East Meredith2.5 miles17
Shackport4.2 miles17
Davenport4.3 miles17
West Kortright4.8 miles17
Butts Corner5.5 miles17
Hoseaville5.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 948049. 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.