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Jordan, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Elbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 13080. It lies near Ashbys Pinnacle. The Survey maps it on the Jordan quadrangle. 1,192 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Jordan 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 Jordan, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Jordan, surveyed 1900

On record in Jordan

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Jordan fell from 1,368 to 1,192 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,368
20201,192-176 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

98 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Jordan between 2002 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined49
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural7
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga 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 Jordan: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Fiato Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jordan in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindJordan$100,000Strong thunderstorm winds led to several barns being damaged and one destroyed along River Road. Multiple trees fell on houses and cars along Jordan, River and Southard Roads. Siding was torn off of one house and another had garage damage. Additional damage was noted on Grimes Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindJordan$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and wires.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindJordan$6,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted a tree which fell down onto a house and wires were involved.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindJordan$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJordan$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindJordan$2,000A tree and a fence were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindJordan$2,000Several trees were blown down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJordan$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a power line across North Beaver Street near the intersection of Water Street.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJordan$500Strong winds knocked down large tree branches heading toward Jordan.
September 2013HailJordan-Hail report was relayed by WFO Buffalo.
August 2025HailJordan-no account filed
May 2013HailJordan-no account filed
July 2009HailJordan-no account filed
June 2008HailJordan-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
Elbridge2.5 miles24
Jones Point3.0 miles24
Jacks Reef3.5 miles24
Peru3.6 miles24
Skaneateles Junction3.8 miles24
The Kingdom (historical)5.0 miles24
Skaneateles Falls5.1 miles28
Halfway5.1 miles24

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 JordanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452815The 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 954196. 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.