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Oswego Beach, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oswego town. It lies in ZIP code area 13126. It stands on Rice Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oswego West quadrangle.

Oswego Beach within Oswego County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oswego Beach, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Oswego Beach, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

119 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Oswego Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined73
Arson/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Natural3

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 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oswego Beach: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Erie Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Erie Street PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oswego Beach in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 3 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
July 2019FloodOswego Beach$1,000,000no account filed
August 2019FloodOswego Beach$200,000no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOswego Beach$10,000Two hundred year old tree was downed and crushed a shed.
June 2019FloodOswego Beach-Flood waters continued to keep roads closed in Oswego overnight through the morning of June 21.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
Fruit Valley1.1 miles24
Oswego2.5 miles24
Oswego Center2.7 miles24
Southwest Oswego2.8 miles24
Furniss4.0 miles24
Minetto5.5 miles22
Lansing5.7 miles22
Seneca Hill5.7 miles22

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 Q122566178The 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 959526. 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.