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New Boston, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pinckney town. It lies in ZIP code area 13626. The Survey maps it on the New Boston quadrangle.

New Boston within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Boston, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of New Boston, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of New Boston between 1995 and 2016, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning2

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 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 May 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
18 May 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Boston in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 2 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Boston$1,000Trees were downed onto McDonald Road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Boston$500Tree downed on Route 177 in Copenhagen, blocking the road near River Road.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Bellwood3.4 miles20
Barnes Corners4.0 miles25
Rector4.8 miles20
Parkers6.1 miles20
Windecker7.1 miles19
Clark Corners7.3 miles19
Hooker7.4 miles20
Copenhagen7.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 958392. 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.

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.