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Smithville Center, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Smithville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13778. The Survey maps it on the Tyner quadrangle.

Smithville Center within Chenango County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Smithville Center, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Smithville Center, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Smithville Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 June 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithville Center in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2011Flash FloodSmithville Center$550,000Major flash flooding occurred as numerous roads were flooded by very heavy rain.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Smithville Center$75,000A tornado touched down in the early morning hours of April 28 about 4.5 miles south-southeast of McDonough and moved northeast cutting a path through heavy woods. The tornado passed just south of Lake Ludlow where a couple homes where damaged by the storm. The tornado path appeared to be its strongest and widest just south of the lake through the wooded area. It continued to the northeast where the path narrowed again and weakened. The tornado lifted a little less than 2 miles south of east McDonough.||A significant swath of trees were also blown down southwest of the tornado track on Waldron Road. These trees were all pointing to the southeast in a slightly divergent pattern and were associated with a significant downburst of wind.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSmithville Center$10,000Thunderstorms winds downed trees and wires.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSmithville Center$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Hammerle Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSmithville Center$2,000Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSmithville Center-Emergency management reported trees and wires blown down by thunderstorm winds along Route 220.
May 2000HailSmithville Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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
Adams Corner1.0 miles18
Dibble Corner1.4 miles18
Corbin Corner2.4 miles18
Tyner3.6 miles18
Buckley Hollow3.7 miles18
Brisben4.1 miles17
Smithville Flats4.4 miles17
South Oxford5.9 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122539640The 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 973081. 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.