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Redwood, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Alexandria town. It lies in ZIP code area 13679. The Survey maps it on the Redwood quadrangle. 493 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 367 feet above sea level.

Redwood within Jefferson County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Redwood, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Redwood, surveyed 1903

Population over time

2 figures

Redwood fell from 605 to 493 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010605
2020493-112 (-19%)

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

104 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Redwood between 1997 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined57
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Redwood: 5 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Redwood Lead OccurrenceLeadOccurrence
Plessis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rebscher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fern OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Hollywood Club OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945
Outafit OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945
Wolfe Hole OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redwood in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRedwood$8,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRedwood$1,000Trees downed in the Town of Redwood.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Bean Hill Crossing2.2 miles19
Browns Corners3.0 miles19
Plessis3.5 miles19
Alexandria Center4.0 miles18
Godfreys Corner4.6 miles18
Bartletts Corner4.9 miles18
Goose Bay5.1 miles19
Theresa5.9 miles19

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 RedwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459976The 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 962337. 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.