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East Sidney, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sidney town. It lies in ZIP code area 13775. It lies near Wheat Hill. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

East Sidney within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 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 Sidney, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of East Sidney, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

88 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of East Sidney between 1998 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined59
Debris and open burning17
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of East Sidney: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unadilla QuarryClayProducer
Unadilla Quarry and MillClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Franklin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howe Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unadilla Concrete Prods S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Sidney in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 2 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
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEast Sidney$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Sidney$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree, blocking a road.

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
Bartlett Hollow2.8 miles16
Sidney Center3.0 miles19
Brooklyn3.4 miles16
Franklin Depot3.5 miles16
Franklin3.6 miles16
Merrickville4.7 miles16
Youngs5.0 miles19
South Unadilla5.8 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122543909The 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 972431. 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.