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Waterville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sangerfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13480. It lies near Sheepskin Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Oriskany Falls quadrangle. 1,473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Waterville within Oneida County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 1986
Topographic sheet of Waterville, surveyed 1907

On record in Waterville

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Waterville fell from 1,583 to 1,473 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
20101,583
20201,473-110 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

53 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Waterville between 2001 and 2019, burning about 23 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural3
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
4 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Waterville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oriskany Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Oriskany Falls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterville in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWaterville$300,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWaterville$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWaterville$10,000Large, heavy, bolted down sheds were blown approximately 500 feet into a roadway. Several trees were blown down in the same area.
July 2013Flash FloodWaterville$5,000A road was flooded with people trapped in a vehicle.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWaterville$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto wires.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWaterville$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto wires.
May 2013HailWaterville-no account filed
July 2008HailWaterville-no account filed
July 2008HailWaterville-no account filed
June 2007HailWaterville-no account filed
June 2007HailWaterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Sangerfield1.2 miles19
Conger Corners1.8 miles19
Hanover2.5 miles19
Brothertown2.5 miles19
Five Corners2.6 miles17
Forge Hollow2.7 miles19
Pleasant Valley2.9 miles19
Marshall3.5 miles17

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 WatervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452971The 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 968917. 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.