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Lairdsville, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Westmoreland town. It lies in ZIP code area 13323. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle.

Lairdsville within Oneida County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lairdsville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Lairdsville, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

68 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Lairdsville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Lairdsville: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Penfield QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Bertie Waterlime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eisler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kirkland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lawless QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Borst MinesIronPast Producer
Brimfield MineIronPast Producer
Clinton Mills OpeningIronPast Producer
Clinton MineIronPast Producer
Derwin FarmIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lairdsville in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 tornado. 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
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Lairdsville$125,000A pre-dawn line of severe thunderstorms dropped south across the county. Rotation occurred in a kink in the line of storms, generating an EF1 tornado from just south of Westmoreland, through the western edge of the Hamilton College Campus, to near|Clinton. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped, and a farm sustained significant damage to its silo and outbuildings. Debris from the farm was lofted at least 1000 feet across the field, with some of it impaling the ground as debris missiles. While there was this focused corridor of convergent enhanced EF1 tornado damage, other scattered tree damage could be found throughout the area associated with damaging winds up to 70 mph from the line of severe storms.
August 2023Tornado (EF1)Lairdsville$10,000A tornado touched down onto College Hill Road with numerous downed and uprooted trees. Damage continued northward onto a local golf course where additional trees were downed in multiple directions. The tornado then lifted once it reached Seneca turnpike.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Hecla1.8 miles26
Kirkland2.6 miles26
Clark Mills2.9 miles26
Westmoreland2.9 miles26
Millgate Meadows3.4 miles26
Clinton3.5 miles26
Franklin Springs3.6 miles26
Bartlett3.8 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 LairdsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657139The 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 954893. 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.