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Marietta, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marcellus town. It lies in ZIP code area 13110. It stands on Van Benthuysen Brook. The Survey maps it on the Marcellus quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Marietta within Onondaga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

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 Marietta, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Marietta, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

97 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Marietta between 2000 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined47
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
3 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga 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 Marietta: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marietta in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindMarietta$6,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked multiple trees and wires down along Slate Hill Road and Route 20.

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
Rose Hill1.0 miles28
Thorn Hill1.2 miles28
Amber2.1 miles28
Shamrock2.1 miles28
Clintonville2.1 miles28
Heath Grove2.3 miles28
Navarino2.9 miles28
Borodino3.5 miles26

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 MariettaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6763209The 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 956517. 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.