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South Plymouth, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Plymouth town. It lies in ZIP code area 13844. It stands on East Branch Canasawacta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Norwich quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

South Plymouth within Chenango County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

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 Plymouth, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of South Plymouth, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of South Plymouth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
31 July 2002Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 July 2004Missing 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of South Plymouth: 3 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
Foley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Robert H. Stackhouse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stack House Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Plymouth in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSouth Plymouth$5,000Multiple trees were blown down on Bartlett Road and State Route 23.

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
Plasterville2.3 miles19
Galena2.8 miles19
North Norwich3.2 miles19
Plymouth3.2 miles19
Norwich4.1 miles19
Hawley Corners4.1 miles19
Kirk4.4 miles19
Maple Grove East4.5 miles19

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 South PlymouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740518The 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 965843. 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.