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Killawog, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lisle town. It lies in ZIP code area 13803. It stands on Jennings Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marathon quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Killawog within Broome County

Then and now

1903 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Killawog, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Killawog, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

70 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Killawog between 1997 and 2019, burning about 129 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Killawog: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Harry Pease No.1 WellSaltProspect

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Killawog in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindKillawog$50,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindKillawog$15,000Many trees were blown down including on top of cars, power lines and a storage shed. Trees were also blown down in the Town of Lisle. Damage reports ranged from 401 pm to 417 pm.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindKillawog$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto an occupied camper; unknown injuries.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindKillawog$5,000Severe thunderstorms moved across eastern New York on the afternoon and evening of July 7th as a stationary front lay across the Mohawk Valley. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in many areas while intense lightning started several fires and killed a man in Albany. In addition torrential downpours resulted in some flash flooding as well as flooding of poorly drained low lying areas. Among the areas hardest hit were the Capital District Region where over 10,000 customers were left without electricity. In Albany a 34 year-old man was struck and killed by lightning as he was holding a metal weed trimmer, while a horse standing in a field near a tree was struck and killed by lightning in Fort Ann. Other areas hard hit included Saugerties, Norwich, Leonarrowdsville, and Kingsbury where numerous trees were downed some of which fell on cars and homes. Urban Flooding was reported in Mechanicville and Hudson Falls as storm drains backed up. While flash flooding occurred in Tioga County where many creeks were out of their banks and in northern Sullivan County where up to two feet of water was across roads from Roscoe to Lake Muskoday to Basket and trees were downed by flood waters. M34O
October 2010Flash FloodKillawog$2,000Jennings Creek flooded Killawog Hill Road, with four homes evacuated.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindKillawog$1,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a mobile home.

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
Manningville3.3 miles20
Upper Lisle3.4 miles15
Lisle3.5 miles20
Center Lisle3.6 miles20
Dorchester Estates4.8 miles17
Whitney Point5.7 miles17
Meadowbrooke Estates5.8 miles17
Penelope6.7 miles15

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 KillawogAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740504The 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 954605. 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.