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Taberg, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Annsville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13471. It stands on Furnace Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lee Center quadrangle. 3,063 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Taberg within Oneida County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Taberg, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Taberg, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

92 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Taberg between 1996 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning9
Smoking8
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Taberg: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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
George W. Bryant PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
George W. Bryant PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcconnellsville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcconnellsville PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Northern Oneida Sanitary LandfillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Restibo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taberg in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 hail. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTaberg$45,000Significant damage was done at Camp Kiwanis when severe thunderstorm winds hit the area. Several large trees fell at the center of the camp, destroying the fire circle, dumpster, canoes, fencing and some program equipment. Damage to buildings was minimal, with some roof repairs needed.|A National Weather Service storm survey team determined the damage was caused by straight line winds.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTaberg$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTaberg$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto wires.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindTaberg$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
September 2002LightningTaberg$10,000Lightning struck a house on Main Street in the town of Taberg. The damage was confined to the area of the strike. No fire was started. No one was injured.
May 2013HailTaberg$10,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindTaberg$6,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTaberg$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down or uprooted multiple trees around Taberg, mainly along Taberg-Florence Road, Lee Center-Taberg Road, and Wilson Road West.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindTaberg$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
June 2002LightningTaberg$5,000Lightning struck a storage trailer on Yorkland Road in the town of Taberg. The lightning started a fire which destroyed the trailer.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindTaberg$5,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindTaberg$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindTaberg$5,000no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindTaberg$5,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTaberg$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires on Water Street.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTaberg$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked wires down on John Street.
July 2008HailTaberg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Leisure Village0.9 miles19
Pine Hill1.9 miles19
Blossvale2.2 miles19
Brookfield2.5 miles19
Lee3.0 miles19
Humaston3.1 miles19
Pine3.3 miles19
Becks Grove3.4 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 TabergAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14707406The 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 966977. 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.