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Seneca Knolls, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Van Buren town. It lies in ZIP code area 13209. The Survey maps it on the Camillus quadrangle. 1,992 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Seneca Knolls within Onondaga County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Seneca Knolls, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Seneca Knolls, surveyed 1900

Population over time

2 figures

Seneca Knolls fell from 2,011 to 1,992 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
20102,011
20201,992-19 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

292 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Seneca Knolls between 2000 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 38 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/undetermined163
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning20
Natural19
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Seneca Knolls: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Bloating Material, Clay. 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
WarnersBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Warners Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga 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
Stiles0.7 miles24
Red Rock0.9 miles26
Van Buren0.9 miles24
Lindbergh Lawns1.6 miles24
Village Green1.7 miles26
Cold Springs1.8 miles26
Lakeside2.1 miles24
Long Branch2.3 miles29

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 Seneca KnollsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460140The 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 1852911. 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.