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.
Then and now
1900 to 1985The 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.


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
Whig Hill and Dependencieslisted 1975
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1943 USGS Lysander quadrangle1:31680
- 1955 USGS Lysander quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
89 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 22 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 2 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 16 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 13 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $20,000 | Trees blown down and several roofs damaged. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires along West Genesee Road. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $2,000 | A pole and large branches were downed on Plainville Road between Sprague and Gates Roads. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $1,000 | Strong 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $1,000 | Multiple large branches were blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $1,000 | Trees and telephone poles down |
| August 2025 | Hail | Plainville | - | Estimated golf ball size hail near Lysander via social media. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Plainville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lysander | 3.3 miles | 23 | |
| Jones Point | 3.6 miles | 24 | |
| The Kingdom (historical) | 3.7 miles | 24 | |
| Hortontown | 3.9 miles | 23 | |
| Jacksonville | 4.1 miles | 23 | |
| Jacks Reef | 4.3 miles | 24 | |
| Baird Corners | 4.4 miles | 23 | |
| Little Utica | 4.6 miles | 23 |
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 Plainville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7200782 | The 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.







