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Venice Center, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Venice town. It lies in ZIP code area 13147. The Survey maps it on the Genoa quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Venice Center within Cayuga County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Venice Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Venice Center, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

38 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Venice Center between 2005 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burning3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 August 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
18 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga 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 Venice Center: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Town of Genoa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Genoa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town of Scipio PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Scipio PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venice Center in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindVenice Center$67,500A 90 mph microburst was determined to have hit Roach's Farm in|Venice, NY. There were four barns that sustained roof damage with|metal panels being lofted. The furthest debris was about 200 |yards from the barn. Some of the metal panels had been lofted into|the power lines along Stewart's Corners Rd but had been cleaned |prior to our survey. There were several pieces of metal roofing |that were still located in trees at the time of our survey. At the|intersection of Ford Rd and Stewart's Corners Rd, there was a |Davis weather station that was sheltered from the southwest, but |recorded a measured 59 mph gust during the storm. ||The strongest damage indicators were on the northwestern edge of |the damage path along Ford Rd, where several trees were snapped. |Three of the hemlock trees lining Ford road were snapped roughly |10 to 15 feet off the ground. Behind those trees, there were a |group of maple trees with several of those being snapped in |addition to the hemlocks. One of the maple trees fell onto a farm |building and shifted the entire building off the wooden foundation|to the east northeast. The building likely shifted due to the |tree falling, however the wooden polls on the northwestern edge of|the building had been lifted out of the ground by about 4 inches.|Other damage was also seen around the area, generally to the east|where another farm building lost metal roofing and a large |hardwood tree had its trunk snapped, however they were not along |the path of the stronger winds.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindVenice Center$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on a car and another tree blocking a roadway.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindVenice Center$5,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in several trees being knocked over in Venice Center along Niles and Ledyard Road.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindVenice Center$5,000Trees and wires were blown down at the corner of Route 34 and Ford Road.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindVenice Center$4,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees as well as damaged a camper. A personal weather station recorded 59 mph winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindVenice Center$2,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindVenice Center$1,000Power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
November 2006Thunderstorm WindVenice Center$1,000Trees down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindVenice Center-Power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds in Venice.
July 2024HailVenice Center-no account filed
May 2015HailVenice Center-no account filed
June 2007Funnel CloudVenice Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Stewart Corners1.7 miles23
Scipio Center3.1 miles26
Poplar Ridge3.3 miles23
Merrifield3.4 miles26
Sherwood3.7 miles26
Edgewater4.5 miles28
East Venice4.5 miles23
Ashland4.5 miles28

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 Venice CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740271The 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 968481. 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.