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Kent, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Carlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14477. It stands on Gilbert Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kent quadrangle. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Kent within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kent, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Kent, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

62 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Kent between 2001 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning6
Smoking5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2020Natural3.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
3 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kent in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKent$2,000no account filed
August 2013HailKent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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
Sawyer1.6 miles14
East Gaines2.6 miles14
Carlton2.9 miles14
Baldwin Corner3.0 miles14
West Kendall3.2 miles16
Jones Beach3.3 miles14
Childs4.1 miles14
Point Breeze4.1 miles14

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 KentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740547The 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 954530. 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.