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Sherwood, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scipio town. It lies in ZIP code area 13026. The Survey maps it on the Scipio Center quadrangle.

Sherwood within Cayuga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sherwood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sherwood, surveyed 1899

On record in Sherwood

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

52 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood between 2005 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6

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
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burning6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Debris and open burning3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 August 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
12 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 Sherwood: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Aurora WellSaltPast Producer
Town of Scipio PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Scipio PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cayuga 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
Scipioville1.5 miles26
Poplar Ridge1.6 miles23
Merrifield2.5 miles26
Bunker3.4 miles27
Scipio Center3.7 miles26
Venice Center3.7 miles23
Aurora4.3 miles27
Black Rock4.4 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 SherwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7495480The 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 965095. 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.