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Orangeville Center, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Orangeville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14569. The Survey maps it on the Dale quadrangle.

Orangeville Center within Wyoming County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Orangeville Center, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Orangeville Center, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

46 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Orangeville Center between 2003 and 2017, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orangeville Center in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 1998Tornado (F2)Orangeville Center$1,000,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindOrangeville Center$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOrangeville Center-Warsaw New York State Mesonet.

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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
Dutch Flats1.7 miles16
Halls Corner2.8 miles17
South Attica3.1 miles16
Johnsonburg3.4 miles14
Varysburg3.4 miles16
Attica Center4.6 miles19
Wethersfield Springs5.0 miles17
Thompsons Crossing5.6 miles19

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 Q122560001The 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 959435. 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.