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North Java, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Java town. It lies in ZIP code area 14113. The Survey maps it on the Johnsonburg quadrangle. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.

North Java within Wyoming County

Then and now

1923 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Java, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of North Java, surveyed 1923

On record in North Java

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

44 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of North Java between 2003 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning8
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 June 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming 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 North Java: 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
Han-Kin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Java in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
May 2011Flash FloodNorth Java$75,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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
Southburg0.7 miles14
Frinks Corner3.0 miles15
Java Center3.4 miles15
Toziers Corner3.9 miles14
Johnsonburg4.0 miles14
Plants Corner4.5 miles15
Sheldon Center4.6 miles15
Java Village5.3 miles15

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 North JavaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740539The 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 958831. 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.