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Omi, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ghent town. It lies in ZIP code area 12075. The Survey maps it on the Stottville quadrangle.

Omi within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

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 Omi, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Omi, surveyed 1903

On record in Omi

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Omi between 1992 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning36
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omi in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 4 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 2023Thunderstorm WindOmi-Wires were downed on Orchard Road in the Town of Ghent.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOmi-Trees were downed on George Road in the Town of Ghent.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOmi-Wires down across a road in the town of Ghent.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindOmi-Numerous trees, branches and power lines down. In addition, telephone service was interrupted when trees fell on telephone wires, snapping two poles.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
West Ghent1.1 miles21
Rossman3.3 miles21
Stuyvesant Falls3.4 miles21
Ghent3.5 miles23
Pulvers3.6 miles21
Stockport3.6 miles21
Columbiaville3.8 miles25
Country Estates East4.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972893. 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.