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Oneida Castle, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Vernon town. It lies in ZIP code area 13421. It stands on Taylor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oneida quadrangle. 586 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Oneida Castle within Oneida County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oneida Castle, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Oneida Castle, surveyed 1895

Population over time

2 figures

Oneida Castle fell from 625 to 586 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
2010625
2020586-39 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

126 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Oneida Castle between 2000 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning19
Natural14
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oneida Castle: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Johnson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lanz Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Valley Mills QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
West Stockbridge Hill QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oneida Castle in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 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
December 2023FloodOneida Castle$75,000The Oneida Creek at Oneida exceeded moderate flood stage and crested at 13.39 feet on December 18th at 4:45 PM. Water up to this level spreads into a mobile home park in Oneida Castle and affects Prospect and Highland Streets.
November 2019FloodOneida Castle$75,000The Oneida Creek at Oneida exceeded Moderate flood stage with a crest of 13.66 feet at 7:30 AM on November 1st.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOneida Castle$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on NY 365A blocking both directions at South Warner Street.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Sconondoa1.1 miles25
Sherrill2.0 miles25
Willow Place3.1 miles25
Durhamville3.3 miles26
Verona Station4.3 miles25
Dams Corner4.4 miles25
State Bridge4.9 miles26
Vernon5.0 miles25

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 Oneida CastleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453010The 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 959364. 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.