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Oswego Center, 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 lies near Cornish Hill. The Survey maps it on the Oswego West quadrangle.

Oswego Center 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 Center, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Oswego Center, 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

164 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Oswego Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined101
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning23
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4

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
21 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 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 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 Center: 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oswego Center in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindOswego Center$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds blocking a roadway.
June 2019Flash FloodOswego Center$1,000Route 7 was reported flooded and closed in Oswego Center.

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
Furniss1.3 miles24
Fruit Valley2.1 miles24
Southwest Oswego2.3 miles24
Oswego Beach2.7 miles24
Oswego3.1 miles24
Minetto3.2 miles22
Seneca Hill3.5 miles22
North Hannibal4.1 miles24

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 Q122588485The 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 959528. 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.