BlockBefore

Schenevus, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Maryland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12155. It stands on Sparrowhawk Brook. The Survey maps it on the Schenevus quadrangle. 494 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Schenevus 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 Schenevus, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Schenevus, surveyed 1907

On record in Schenevus

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

Population over time

2 figures

Schenevus fell from 551 to 494 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
2010551
2020494-57 (-10%)

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

41 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Schenevus between 2003 and 2016, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 September 2015Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 June 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 June 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schenevus in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSchenevus1 hurt, $2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a vehicle, injuring the driver.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSchenevus$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSchenevus$5,000Powerlines downed by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSchenevus$5,000Severe thunderstorms moved across parts of eastern New York ahead of a strong cold front during the afternoon of July 26th. Thunderstorm winds as high as 80 mph downed thousands of trees which fell on homes, vehicles, and powerlines. In Saratoga County alone 20,000 customers were left without electricity. Among the hardest hit areas were Greenfield Center, Wilton, Northumberland, Saratoga Springs, and Fort Miller. At the Saratoga Spa State Park some 1,500 trees were uprooted or damaged. Some of the trees fell on cars and on the grounds of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center forcing cancellation of a concert. In Greenfield Center extensive damage occurred at the Utters Mobile Estates where at least five mobile homes sustained significant damage when trees fell on them. In Fort Miller dozens of trees were uprooted or snapped off with some of the trees falling on homes while in Argyle a mobile home was flipped over. Torrential rains during the storms resulted in urban flooding in Amsterdam, Saratoga Springs, Fort Edward, and Fort Miller. Lightning was also a problem as a farmer and his daughter were injured when struck by lightning while on a farm tractor in Northumberland and a horse was struck and killed by lightning in Chatham.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSchenevus$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSchenevus$1,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a house.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSchenevus$1,000Strong thunderstorms winds knocked a tree down onto wires.
June 2009HailSchenevus-no account filed
June 2008HailSchenevus-no account filed
June 2008HailSchenevus-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
Chaseville2.0 miles19
Elk Creek2.9 miles19
Maryland3.6 miles19
Tuscan3.8 miles19
South Worcester4.3 miles17
Worcester4.8 miles19
Westville6.3 miles19
Westford7.1 miles18

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 SchenevusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6122376The 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 964574. 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.