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Plainville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lysander town. It lies in ZIP code area 13112. The Survey maps it on the Lysander quadrangle. It stands 489 feet above sea level.

Plainville within Onondaga 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 Plainville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Plainville, surveyed 1900

On record in Plainville

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

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

89 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Plainville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plainville in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPlainville$20,000Trees blown down and several roofs damaged.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPlainville$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires along West Genesee Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPlainville$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPlainville$2,000A pole and large branches were downed on Plainville Road between Sprague and Gates Roads.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPlainville$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree in Sunset Campgrounds. The tree fell between two campsites, barely missing the two RVs parked on the campsites.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPlainville$1,000Multiple large branches were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPlainville$1,000Trees and telephone poles down
August 2025HailPlainville-Estimated golf ball size hail near Lysander via social media.
July 2008HailPlainville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
Lysander3.3 miles23
Jones Point3.6 miles24
The Kingdom (historical)3.7 miles24
Hortontown3.9 miles23
Jacksonville4.1 miles23
Jacks Reef4.3 miles24
Baird Corners4.4 miles23
Little Utica4.6 miles23

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 PlainvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7200782The 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 960667. 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.