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Waterport, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Carlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14571. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashwood quadrangle.

Waterport within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Waterport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Waterport, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Waterport between 2001 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking10
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans 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 Waterport: 1 producer. 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
Gravel Pit No 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterport in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2014: 2 hail, 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWaterport$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires on Park Avenue in Waterport.
July 2013HailWaterport$5,000no account filed
June 2004HailWaterport$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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
Waterport Station0.8 miles14
Kenyonville1.6 miles17
Toms Landing2.2 miles14
Gaines2.9 miles14
Kuckville3.1 miles17
Platten3.1 miles17
Ashwood3.2 miles17
Carlton3.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968906. 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.