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Jacksonville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lysander town. It lies in ZIP code area 13135. The Survey maps it on the Lysander quadrangle.

Jacksonville within Onondaga County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jacksonville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Jacksonville, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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

102 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined60
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonville in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindJacksonville$5,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and wires.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
Little Utica1.0 miles23
Lysander2.1 miles23
Baird Corners2.1 miles23
Hortontown2.7 miles23
Lamson2.7 miles26
Wrights Corners3.3 miles26
Plainville4.1 miles23
Baldwinsville6.1 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 953902. 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.