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Kasoag, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Williamstown town. It lies in ZIP code area 13302. It stands on Indian Camp Brook. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle.

Kasoag within Oswego County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kasoag, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Kasoag, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

55 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Kasoag between 2002 and 2020, burning about 25 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/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning5
Smoking4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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 Kasoag: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Babcock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pappa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kasoag in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 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
October 2016Thunderstorm WindKasoag$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindKasoag$1,000A tree was downed on a wire along CC Road.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
Ricard2.5 miles20
Happy Valley3.1 miles20
Williamstown3.1 miles20
Maple Hill3.8 miles21
Pine Meadows4.2 miles22
North Amboy4.4 miles20
Mud Hill4.9 miles20
Altmar5.3 miles20

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 Q122565792The 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 972677. 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.