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Oregon, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Johnsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12811. It stands on Kibby Brook. The Survey maps it on the Bakers Mills quadrangle.

Oregon within Warren County

Then and now

1898 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oregon, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Oregon, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oregon between 2002 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSTOCKHOLM BROOK FIRE
21 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEAGLE POND FIRE
20 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oregon in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2023FloodOregon$15,000Route 8 is closed in both directions between Johnsburg and the Hamilton/Warren County line due to flooding.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOregon-A remote damage assessment conducted by National Weather Service using satellite imagery confirmed a microburst on the east side of Stewart Creek in Warren County. A large swath of extensive tree damage was sustained as a result of wind gust speeds maximizing near 90 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOregon-A tree was downed blocking Route 8.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOregon-Route 8 was closed in both directions due to a downed tree.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Fullers5.7 miles23
Garnet Lake5.8 miles25
Edwards Hill6.3 miles27
Bakers Mills6.4 miles25
Sodom8.4 miles26
Johnsburg9.4 miles27
Knowelhurst9.5 miles23
Harrisburg10.7 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959460. 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.