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Rockdale, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Guilford town. It lies in ZIP code area 13809. It stands on Kent Brook. The Survey maps it on the Guilford quadrangle.

Rockdale within Chenango County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rockdale, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Rockdale, surveyed 1915

On record in Rockdale

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

9 surveys from 18 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Rockdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning14
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 July 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockdale in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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 2006FloodRockdale$2,000,000no account filed
September 2011FloodRockdale$250,000A record breaking flood occurred on the Unadilla River near Rockdale on September 8, 2011. The river crested at 14.22 feet at 10:45 AM. Widespread flooding occurred all along the reach of the river. This surpassed the previous record of 13.96 feet set during the June 2006 flood.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindRockdale$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a roadway.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRockdale-SKYWARN storm spotters reported small hail.

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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
East Guilford2.6 miles18
Ives Settlement3.0 miles18
Parker3.3 miles18
Guilford Center3.4 miles18
Mount Upton3.6 miles18
Guilford4.7 miles18
Rockwells Mills5.0 miles18
Yaleville5.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 962747. 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.