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East Palermo, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Palermo town. It lies in ZIP code area 13036. The Survey maps it on the Central Square quadrangle.

East Palermo within Oswego County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Palermo, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of East Palermo, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

102 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of East Palermo between 2000 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning10
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Natural1

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
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 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 Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of East Palermo: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 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
Chauvin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
French Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gulliver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hays & Smith PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hogback Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rawson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weaver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weaver Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Palermo in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 tornado. 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
June 2010Tornado (EF0)East Palermo$50,000A NWS survey confirmed a tornado touched down.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
Upson Corners0.8 miles22
Peat Corners0.9 miles22
Russ Mills1.2 miles22
Catfish Corners1.9 miles22
Loomis Corner2.6 miles23
Cribbs Corner2.7 miles21
Palermo2.8 miles23
Bowen Corners3.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949197. 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.