Watertown, New York

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• Jefferson County

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1895 1985

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 12 of 16 shown

• Emerson Placelisted 2003
• Roswell P. Flower Memorial Librarylisted 1980
• Jefferson County Courthouse Complexlisted 1974
• Paddock Arcadelisted 1976
• Paddock Mansionlisted 1979
• Public Square Historic Districtlisted 1984
• Public Square Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2016
• Saint Paul's Episcopal Churchlisted 1997
• Emma Flower Taylor Mansionlisted 2002
• Thomas Memorial AME Zion Churchlisted 2002
• Trinity Episcopal Church and Parish Houselisted 2000
• Watertown Masonic Templelisted 1980

Every listing in Jefferson County

Watertown fell from 27,023 to 24,685 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.

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.

• 1895 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1908 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1943 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Watertown between 2000 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 89 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Burrs Mills
• East Watertown
• Huntingtonville
• Watertown Center
• Fields Settlement
• Rutland Center

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Watertown: 10 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watertown in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 37 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968914. 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.