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Morrisville, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Eaton town. It lies in ZIP code area 13408. It stands on Callahan Brook. The Survey maps it on the Morrisville quadrangle. 1,633 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,348 feet above sea level.

Morrisville within Madison County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morrisville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Morrisville, surveyed 1902

On record in Morrisville

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

64 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Morrisville between 2000 and 2019, burning about 35 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined27
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Morrisville: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Dwight Graham No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Melvin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Munnsville Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrisville in 11 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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 2013Flash FloodMorrisville$50,000Water was flowing through the Key Bank in the downtown area.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$15,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and poles.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$6,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires. A roof was ripped off a shed.
July 2006Flash FloodMorrisville$5,000Heavy rains from slow moving thunderstorms caused widespread flooding across the county. Several roads were washed out in Lenox and Lincoln Townships.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$2,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a couple of trees in the town of Eaton.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$1,000Large limbs and wires down
November 2006Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$1,000Trees down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMorrisville-Large branches were broken off by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011HailMorrisville-no account filed
April 2006HailMorrisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Eagleville1.2 miles18
Williams Corners1.8 miles18
Morrisville Station2.0 miles18
White Corners2.0 miles18
Pratts Hollow2.6 miles18
Pratts3.1 miles18
West Eaton3.2 miles18
Pine Woods3.3 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 MorrisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453180The 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 957706. 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.