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Pennellville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Schroeppel town. It lies in ZIP code area 13132. It stands on Bell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pennellville quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Pennellville 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 Pennellville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Pennellville, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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

130 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Pennellville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning9
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
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
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pennellville: 4 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Capria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Phoenix Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rawson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pennellville in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2000Thunderstorm WindPennellville1 hurt, $20,000no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindPennellville$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindPennellville$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPennellville$5,000Multiple reports of trees downed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindPennellville$5,000Multiple trees down in the Town of Schroeppel.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPennellville$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
July 2016HailPennellville-no account filed
July 2009HailPennellville-no account filed

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
Stewart Corners1.9 miles22
Bowen Corners2.0 miles23
Roosevelt Corners2.2 miles22
Sand Ridge2.8 miles22
Suttons Corner3.0 miles23
Gilbert Mills3.0 miles23
Caughdenoy3.4 miles22
Phoenix3.9 miles26

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.

Wikipedia article on PennellvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5939258The 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 960147. 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.