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Deferiet, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilna town. It lies in ZIP code area 13628. The Survey maps it on the Deferiet quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 660 feet above sea level.

Deferiet within Jefferson County

Then and now

1911 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Deferiet, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Deferiet, surveyed 1911

Population over time

2 figures

Deferiet fell from 294 to 245 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010294
2020245-49 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

91 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Deferiet between 2001 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Deferiet: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Cole Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Felts Mills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Soper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deferiet in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 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 2000Thunderstorm WindDeferiet$10,000no account filed
September 2025Thunderstorm WindDeferiet$500Tree downed down on Alexander Street.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDeferiet-Ft. Drum Airfield.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDeferiet-no account filed
November 2020Thunderstorm WindDeferiet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Herrings1.8 miles18
Great Bend1.9 miles18
Hubbard Crossing2.0 miles18
Doolins Crossing3.4 miles18
Felts Mills4.3 miles21
La Raysville (historical)4.5 miles21
Sterlingville4.7 miles18
Reedville4.8 miles18

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 DeferietAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453169The 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 948249. 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.