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Owasco, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Owasco town. It lies in ZIP code area 13021. The Survey maps it on the Owasco quadrangle.

Owasco within Cayuga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Owasco, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Owasco, surveyed 1899

On record in Owasco

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

60 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Owasco between 2002 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owasco in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindOwasco$5,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindOwasco$2,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in a tree being knocked over on Valentine Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOwasco$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Valentine Road.
March 2007FloodOwasco-Minor flooding occurred on the Owasco Lake Outlet at Auburn from the evening hours of March 15th to the morning of the 18th. The lake outlet at Auburn crested at 5.3 feet which is .3 feet over the flood stage of 5 feet. Over an inch of rain combining with snowmelt caused the minor flooding.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOwasco-Several trees were blown down on Melrose Road.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindOwasco-Emergency management reported trees down in Owasco.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindOwasco-Thunderstorm winds caused falling tree limbs to knock down power lines. 75 homes were left without power in Owasco and Fleming.
August 2010HailOwasco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Conklin Cove2.3 miles26
Degroff2.7 miles28
Niles3.0 miles28
Austin3.1 miles28
Highland Beach3.1 miles28
Baptist Corners3.4 miles28
Owasco Lake Station3.4 miles26
Wyckoff3.4 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959665. 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.