BlockBefore

East Windsor, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 13865. The Survey maps it on the Gulf Summit quadrangle.

East Windsor within Broome 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 Windsor, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of East Windsor, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

86 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of East Windsor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning18
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkWINDSOR
23 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Windsor: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, 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
Benjamin Franklin Graphite MineGraphitePast Producer
Windsor Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Windsor in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2011: 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Windsor$5,000A roof was blown off a shed. A camping trailer was blown off its supports at Forest Lake Campground.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Windsor-Several trees were blown down. One tree fell on a car.

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
Ouaquaga2.3 miles14
Mount Carmel2.4 miles17
Windsor3.0 miles16
Doraville3.0 miles17
Damascus3.8 miles17
Center Village3.9 miles17
Harpursville4.7 miles17
Howes4.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949279. 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.