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Frenchville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Western town. It lies in ZIP code area 13486. It stands on Wells Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Western quadrangle.

Frenchville within Oneida County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frenchville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Frenchville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Frenchville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2

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
20 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frenchville in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 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
September 2009Thunderstorm WindFrenchville$2,000A tree fell on a house on River Road.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
North Western1.2 miles19
Carmichael Hill1.5 miles19
Big Brook1.7 miles19
Westernville1.9 miles22
Hillside2.7 miles22
Merrick Corner3.9 miles19
Steuben4.0 miles19
Dunn Brook4.5 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950707. 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.