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Medina, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ridgeway town. It lies in ZIP code area 14103. The Survey maps it on the Medina quadrangle. 6,047 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Medina 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 Medina, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Medina, surveyed 1897

On record in Medina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Medina fell from 6,065 to 6,047 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20106,065
20206,047-18 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

85 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Medina between 2000 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined39
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural10
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans 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 Medina: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Medina Sandstone Quarry, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rorick Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medina in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 2 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
August 2011HailMedina$50,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMedina$35,000no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodMedina$30,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMedina$25,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMedina$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMedina$15,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMedina$15,000no account filed
July 1997HailMedina$15,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMedina$10,000Law enforcement received reports of trees and wires down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMedina$10,000no account filed
January 1999Heavy SnowMedina$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMedina$10,000no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindMedina$8,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMedina$8,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMedina$5,000Multiple reports were received of trees and wires down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMedina$3,000no account filed
July 2020Heavy RainMedina-Rainfall of 2.82 inches fell between noon and 2:50 PM.
July 2020Heavy RainMedina-Rainfall of 5.59 inches reported.
July 2020Heavy RainMedina-Rainfall of 7.03 inches report.
July 2020Flash FloodMedina-Additional flooding was reported in Medina.

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
Lakewood Village1.0 miles17
Shelby Center2.1 miles17
Shelby Basin2.3 miles17
Ridgeway3.3 miles16
Millville3.4 miles18
West Ridgeway3.7 miles16
Knowlesville Station4.3 miles18
Knowlesville4.3 miles18

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 MedinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3470455The 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 956905. 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.