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Waterville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lorraine town. It lies in ZIP code area 13659. The Survey maps it on the Boylston Center quadrangle.

Waterville 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 Waterville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Waterville, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

25 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Waterville between 2002 and 2018, burning about 65 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
14 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Lorraine2.4 miles23
Worth3.6 miles23
Worth Center3.6 miles21
Winona3.9 miles20
Allendale5.6 miles21
Giddingsville6.4 miles21
Cobbtown6.6 miles22
Adams7.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973209. 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.