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Ontario Center, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ontario town. It lies in ZIP code area 14519. The Survey maps it on the Ontario quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Ontario Center within Wayne County

Then and now

1900 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ontario Center, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Ontario Center, surveyed 1900

On record in Ontario Center

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

146 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Ontario Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined80
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning17
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Ontario Center: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Walworth QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Walworth Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Ontario Iron Ore Co. WorkingsIronPast Producer
Ontario OpeningsIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Ontario1.3 miles20
Fruitland1.7 miles20
Orchard Grove Village Park2.0 miles20
Furnaceville2.5 miles12
Lakeside2.7 miles12
Union Hill3.5 miles20
Lincoln3.6 miles20
Bear Creek3.8 miles12

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 Ontario CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657506The 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 959407. 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.