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Oaksville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Otsego town. It lies in ZIP code area 13337. The Survey maps it on the Hartwick quadrangle.

Oaksville within Otsego County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oaksville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oaksville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Oaksville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oaksville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindOaksville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and powerlines at the intersection of Cook Road and Williams Road.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOaksville-Two trees were blown down on County Highway 28 in the town of Otsego.

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Cattown0.4 miles17
Fly Creek1.2 miles19
Pail Shop Corners1.3 miles19
Wileytown1.9 miles17
Lidell Corners2.9 miles17
Taylortown3.0 miles16
Summit Crossing3.1 miles17
Snowdon3.1 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122556002The 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 959182. 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.