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Odessa, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Catharine town. It lies in ZIP code area 14869. It stands on Cranberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montour Falls quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Odessa within Schuyler County

Then and now

1898 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Odessa, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Odessa, surveyed 1898

Population over time

2 figures

Odessa fell from 591 to 517 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
2010591
2020517-74 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 31 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Odessa between 1997 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning17
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schuyler 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 Odessa: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
D.Hager No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Federal Land Bank No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Unnamed Salt WellsSaltPast Producer
Watkins Salt Co.Well No.11SaltPast Producer
Barber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Barber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pertl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pertl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wickham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schuyler County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odessa in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindOdessa$50,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires near 1920 County Route 15.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindOdessa$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on wires in a yard and on a road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOdessa$1,000Trees and wires down
April 2006HailOdessa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schuyler 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
Catharine1.7 miles31
Deckertown2.3 miles31
Montour Falls3.1 miles31
Alpine3.8 miles34
Alpine Junction5.1 miles34
Wedgewood5.2 miles29
Watkins Glen5.4 miles30
Smith Valley5.9 miles35

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 OdessaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453046The 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 959224. 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.