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Frankfort Center, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Frankfort town. It lies in ZIP code area 13340. It lies near Dutch Hill. The Survey maps it on the Utica East quadrangle.

Frankfort Center within Herkimer County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frankfort Center, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Frankfort Center, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

140 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Frankfort Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined75
Arson/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning18
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
23 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 Frankfort Center: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bono PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Golf Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort Center in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 6 flood, 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 2023FloodFrankfort Center$10,000Mucky Run Road was closed near Center Road due to a washout from flooding.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindFrankfort Center-A tree was down and on wires on Brown Road in Frankfort Center due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindFrankfort Center-Two trees were reported down and across Center Road due to thunderstorm winds in Frankfort Center.
October 2006FloodFrankfort Center-Nearly 2 inches of rainfall occurring on October 17 into October 18 was associated with minor flooding below Delta Dam. The flood stage of 551.50 was barely exceeded with a reading of 551.60 feet at 10 AM EST on October 18.
October 2006FloodFrankfort Center-Heavy rain produced flooding at Delta Dam from October 20 to October 22. The crest of 552.25 occurred on October 21 at 6 AM EST. Flood stage is 551.5 feet.
October 2006FloodFrankfort Center-Minor flooding occurred below Delta Dam from October 29 until late morning on October 30. The flood crest was 551.70 feet on October 29 at 6:10 AM EST. Flood stage is 551.50 feet.
October 2006FloodFrankfort Center-Major flooding occurred at Utica, with a flood crest of 407.00 feet occurring on October 21 at 4:55 AM EST. Flood stage at Utica is 403.0 feet.
October 2006FloodFrankfort Center-On October 29, minor flooding occurred on the Mohawk River at Utica. The crest was the 403.0 flood stage which occurred at 9 PM EST.

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Harbor2.1 miles24
Stewart Corners2.4 miles24
West Frankfort2.8 miles24
Gulph2.9 miles24
West Schuyler3.3 miles24
East Schuyler3.7 miles23
Corrado Corners3.8 miles23
Frankfort4.0 miles23

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 Q122545339The 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 950601. 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.