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Portlandville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Milford town. It lies in ZIP code area 13834. It stands on Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle.

Portlandville within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Portlandville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Portlandville, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Portlandville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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
17 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Portlandville: 2 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
Colliersville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hemlock Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portlandville in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1998Tornado (F0)Portlandville$75,000A severe thunderstorm briefly became tornadic early in the evening as it crossed over the ridges of the Crumhorn mountains and into the Portlandville/Maryland area. Damage consisted of tree tops twisted off in about a 30 yard wide area. The path of the twister was around three quarters of a mile with the intensity rated as F0. Just beyond Morehouse Brook in Maryland township, the tornado appeared to lift back into the cloud base with no visible signs of damage downstream.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPortlandville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
July 2007HailPortlandville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Milford Center1.2 miles19
Cliffside1.4 miles19
Cooperstown Junction2.7 miles17
Colliersville2.8 miles17
Maryland4.3 miles19
Milford4.3 miles19
Emmons5.2 miles18
Clintonville5.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 961002. 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.