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Sheds, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in DeRuyter town. It lies in ZIP code area 13122. It lies near Pleasant Valley. The Survey maps it on the Erieville quadrangle. It stands 1,444 feet above sea level.

Sheds within Madison County

Then and now

1897 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sheds, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sheds, surveyed 1897

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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Sheds between 1992 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
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
3 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 June 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheds in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 flash 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
July 2013Flash FloodSheds$5,000County Route 80 and Dugway Road were closed due to flooding.
December 2023Flash FloodSheds$2,000Numerous creeks are overflowing with water covering several side roads around town.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
New Woodstock2.9 miles18
Puckerville2.9 miles20
West Woodstock3.7 miles20
Quaker Settlement3.9 miles18
DeRuyter4.6 miles20
Juddville4.8 miles20
Erieville4.8 miles18
Union4.9 miles20

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 ShedsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740276The 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 964991. 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.