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Sand Ridge, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Schroeppel town. It lies in ZIP code area 13132. It stands on Buxton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Central Square quadrangle. 992 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Sand Ridge within Oswego County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sand Ridge, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Sand Ridge, surveyed 1905

Population over time

2 figures

Sand Ridge grew from 849 to 992 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
2010849
2020992+143 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

141 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Sand Ridge between 2000 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural11
Smoking9
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sand Ridge: 3 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
Capria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Phoenix Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Ridge in 1 storm report in 2025: 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSand Ridge$2,000Trees and wires downed on Peter Scott Rd.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
Stewart Corners1.1 miles22
Caughdenoy1.7 miles22
Pennellville2.8 miles23
Roosevelt Corners3.4 miles22
Bowen Corners3.7 miles23
Phoenix4.1 miles26
Central Square4.9 miles22
Suttons Corner5.6 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 Sand RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461104The 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 1867417. 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.