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Sandy Pond, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sandy Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 13142. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ellisburg quadrangle.

Sandy Pond within Oswego County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sandy Pond, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Sandy Pond, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

41 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Pond between 1999 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Smoking1

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 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandy Pond in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSandy Pond$5,000Several large trees were blown down into a house and a garage with a trailer also blown over.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSandy Pond$2,000Wires and trees were reported to be down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSandy Pond$2,000A tree and wires down on a camp on Rainbow Showers Road near Lake Ontario in the Town of Richland.
May 2017HailSandy Pond-no account filed

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
Rainbow Shores1.7 miles22
The Elms2.0 miles19
Selkirk4.4 miles22
Bethel Corners4.4 miles22
Port Ontario4.8 miles22
Sandy Creek5.2 miles22
Pulaski5.6 miles22
Community Park6.0 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964440. 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.