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Oakfield, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oakfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 14125. The Survey maps it on the Oakfield quadrangle. 1,812 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Oakfield within Genesee 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 Oakfield, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Oakfield, surveyed 1897

On record in Oakfield

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

Population over time

2 figures

Oakfield fell from 1,813 to 1,812 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
20101,813
20201,812-1 (-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

83 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Oakfield between 1999 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined51
Debris and open burning14
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Oakfield: 7 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Oakfield Gypsum Products Corp. MineGypsum-AnhydritePlant
Oakfield MineGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerSedimentary
Oakfield MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Pheonix Gypsum Company MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
U.S. Gypsum Company MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed ShaftGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed ShaftGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed ShaftGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed ShaftsGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakfield in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 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
July 2005Thunderstorm WindOakfield$20,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindOakfield$15,000Thunderstorm wind downed numerous trees on East Shelby Road.
December 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Oakfield$15,000Law enforcement reported downed trees blocking Albion Road.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindOakfield$15,000no account filed
January 2012Thunderstorm WindOakfield$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOakfield$10,000no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindOakfield$5,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOakfield$4,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOakfield$2,000Numerous trees were reported down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOakfield$1,000Trees and wires were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Five Corners1.3 miles17
East Oakfield2.5 miles18
South Alabama3.5 miles17
Ridgewood Village3.6 miles17
Wheatville4.3 miles17
Daws4.4 miles18
Bushville4.4 miles17
Elba4.5 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 OakfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461418The 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 959164. 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.