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South Oxford, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oxford town. It lies in ZIP code area 13830. It stands on Eddy Brook. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle.

South Oxford 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 South Oxford, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of South Oxford, surveyed 1902

On record in South Oxford

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of South Oxford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 July 1999Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
19 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 July 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 June 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
17 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Oxford: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Du Boise PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dubois S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wehrli PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whaley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Oxford in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Oxford$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind knocked down multiple trees and wires.
July 2008HailSouth Oxford-no account filed
August 2004HailSouth Oxford-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
Buckley Hollow2.2 miles18
Brisben3.6 miles17
Tyner3.7 miles18
Oxford3.9 miles16
Coventry5.1 miles17
Coventryville5.3 miles17
Dibble Corner5.5 miles18
Smithville Center5.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973097. 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.

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.