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Sweden Center, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sweden town. It lies in ZIP code area 14420. The Survey maps it on the Brockport quadrangle.

Sweden Center within Monroe County

Then and now

1899 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sweden Center, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Sweden Center, surveyed 1899

On record in Sweden Center

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

126 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Sweden Center between 2002 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism33
Smoking19
Debris and open burning11
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sweden Center: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brockport QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweden Center in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 1 lightning, 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 2017LightningSweden Center$20,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSweden Center$2,000Trees and wires were down.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Brockport2.5 miles22
West Sweden3.0 miles22
Clarkson3.9 miles22
Garland4.3 miles22
Redman Corners4.8 miles22
Adams Basin5.0 miles24
Town Pump5.1 miles24
Hinkleyville5.5 miles24

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 Q122595151The 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 966909. 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.