Fernwood, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland town. It lies in ZIP code area 13142. It stands on North Branch Grindstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mexico quadrangle.

Fernwood 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 Fernwood, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Fernwood, surveyed 1905

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.

1905 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

105 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Fernwood between 2000 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined	52
Arson/incendiarism	26
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	GRINDSTONE CREEK
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Smoking	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fernwood: 1 producer. All of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	B.R. Dewitt, Inc. Gp-4 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tylers Corner	1.4 miles	22
Tinker Tavern Corner	1.4 miles	22
Maple View	2.6 miles	18
Daysville	2.9 miles	22
Prattham	3.1 miles	18
Graftons Square	3.6 miles	18
Daysville Corner	3.9 miles	22
Farmers Corner	4.0 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949998. 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.