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Osceola, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Osceola town. It lies in ZIP code area 13316. It stands on Fall Brook. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle.

Osceola within Lewis County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Osceola, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Osceola, surveyed 1906

On record in Osceola

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

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

18 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Osceola between 2003 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined7
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 April 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osceola in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindOsceola$15,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. The trees damaged a house.
November 1999Flash FloodNorth Osceola$15,000The Black River basin east of Lake Ontario received over two inches of rain during the evening hours. While the Black River did not reach flood stage, localized flooding in North Osceola resulted in some road closures.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindOsceola$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree which fell on a car on Osceola Road.
August 2008HailNorth Osceola$10,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindOsceola$8,000Law enforcement reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Several trees downed in Osceola.
August 2023Tornado (EFU)North Osceola$5,000The National Weather Service in Buffalo used Sentinel-2 satellite|imagery and found tornadic damage in Lewis County. A damage scar |was found using difference techniques of satellite imagery. The |scar was found in a wooded area east of North Osceola Road in the |Town of Osceola. A damage survey could not be conducted due to |limited access into the wooded area. The tornado is thus rated|EF-Unknown.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Osceola$2,000Trees were downed on wires along North Osceola Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Osceola$2,000Trees and lines were downed across a road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOsceola$2,000Trees and wires were downed onto Osceola Road.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindOsceola$2,000Trees and wires were reported down in Osceola.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOsceola$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOsceola$1,500Tree and wires downed on Prince Brook Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOsceola$1,000A tree was downed onto a powerline in Osceola.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Leisher Mill4.6 miles19
North Osceola4.9 miles19
Swancott Mill6.8 miles20
New Campbellwood Wye8.0 miles19
Freeman Mill8.1 miles20
Old Campbellwood Wye8.6 miles19
Parson Mill9.0 miles20
Michigan Mills9.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959510. 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.