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Jamesville, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in DeWitt town. It lies in ZIP code area 13078. It stands on Rush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jamesville quadrangle. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Jamesville within Onondaga County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jamesville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Jamesville, surveyed 1900

On record in Jamesville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

282 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Jamesville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined193
Arson/incendiarism33
Smoking20
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Jamesville: 17 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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
Jamesville QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jamesville QuarryCalciumProducer
Jamesville Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jamesville Quarry and MillCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Rock Cut QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
South Onondaga PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Onondaga Pit & Nedrow MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Van Slyke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Van Slyke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gypsum QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamesville in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJamesville$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked wires down.
December 2023Flash FloodJamesville$1,000A video from social media shows fast moving water rushing down roads in the area.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindJamesville$500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a couple of trees in a yard.
May 2001HailJamesville-Large hail was reported from Jamesville through Syracuse. Smaller hail up to half inch diameter was reported in DeWitt and Camillus. Thunderstorm winds also brought a tree down onto the front porch of a house on Peters Street in Syracuse.
June 2007HailJamesville-no account filed

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
Breezy Acres1.8 miles28
Southwood2.0 miles28
Fillmore Corner2.9 miles28
DeWitt3.0 miles29
Skytop3.4 miles29
Lyndon3.5 miles29
High Bridge3.5 miles29
Sentinel Heights3.7 miles28

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 JamesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6146281The 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 953927. 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.