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Ellenburg Center, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellenburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12934. The Survey maps it on the Ellenburg Center quadrangle. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Ellenburg Center within Clinton County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ellenburg Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ellenburg Center, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

41 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Ellenburg Center between 1999 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use55 acresNew York Forest RangersSEAWAY FIRE
25 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersCASHMAN RD
30 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 June 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellenburg Center in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2023Flash FloodEllenburg Center$150,000A second round of torrential rainfall affected the region during the afternoon of the 2nd. Additional flash flooding was reported, most notably at the Blue Haven Campground where significant flooding renewed. Evacuations were needed again after campers returned to sites previously flooded earlier that morning. Other significant flooding occurred in Ellenburg where Routes 190 and 11 intersect. Some bridge and residence damage was noted here.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindEllenburg Center$20,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEllenburg Center$10,000Trees reported down and blocking intersection of Route 11 and Brandy Brook road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindEllenburg Center$5,000Power lines and tree branches downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022HailEllenburg Center-Hail reported with estimated hail size of a quarter (one-inch in diameter).

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Harrigan3.8 miles18
Ellenburg3.8 miles19
Ellenburg Depot5.8 miles19
Dannemora Crossing6.0 miles19
Churubusco6.4 miles19
Clinton Mills6.7 miles20
Merrill7.6 miles18
Forest7.9 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.

Wikipedia article on Ellenburg CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740181The 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 949505. 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.

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.