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Theresa, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Theresa town. It lies in ZIP code area 13691. It stands on Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Theresa quadrangle. 752 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Theresa within Jefferson County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Theresa, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Theresa, surveyed 1903

On record in Theresa

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

Population over time

2 figures

Theresa fell from 863 to 752 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010863
2020752-111 (-13%)

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

145 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Theresa between 1997 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined99
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning7
Smoking6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Theresa: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Plessis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burntbridge Pond AnomalyIronOccurrence1945
Outafit OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945
Shirtliff MineIronPast Producer1838

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Theresa in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2004Flash FloodTheresa$25,000no account filed
February 2017Thunderstorm WindTheresa$15,000Emergency Management reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindTheresa$10,000Emergency management reported trees down on Red Lake Road in Theresa.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTheresa$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds across Schell Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTheresa$3,000Multiple trees were reported down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindTheresa$1,000Trees downed in the Town of Theresa.
July 2009HailTheresa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Rivergate2.0 miles19
Douglas Crossing2.6 miles19
Stroughs Crossing3.8 miles19
Plessis4.9 miles19
Bartletts Corner4.9 miles18
Halls Corner5.3 miles19
Bentleys Corners5.6 miles19
Orleans Four Corners5.7 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 TheresaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460030The 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 967359. 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.