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Webster, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Webster town. It lies in ZIP code area 14580. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle. 5,651 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 442 feet above sea level.

Webster within Monroe County

Then and now

1900 to 1984

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 Webster, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Webster, surveyed 1900

On record in Webster

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Webster grew from 5,399 to 5,651 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
20105,399
20205,651+252 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

373 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 373 fires within 5 miles of Webster between 2000 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 45 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/undetermined199
Smoking49
Arson/incendiarism45
Natural38
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
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
9 September 2020Debris and open burning1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Smoking6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Natural6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Webster: 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
Dewitt Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webster in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2005LightningWebster1 hurtno account filed
May 2000Flash FloodWebster$135,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodWebster$100,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindWebster$50,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindWebster$50,000no account filed
October 1999Thunderstorm WindWebster$35,000no account filed
August 2011Flash FloodWebster$25,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWebster$25,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWest Webster$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree which fell on a house.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWebster$20,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWebster$15,000no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindWebster$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Meadow Drive.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWebster$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWebster$10,000The media relayed reports of trees and wires down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWebster$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWebster$10,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWebster$7,000no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindWebster$5,000Broadcast media showed a large tree downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWebster$2,000Multiple reports of wires downed.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindWebster$2,000Trees and wires downed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWebster$2,000Trees and wires down in Webster.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWebster$1,000Trees downed in the Town of Webster.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWebster$1,000Trees downed in Webster.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWebster$1,000Powerlines downed.
January 1998Flash FloodWebster$1,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodWebster$1,000no account filed
September 2024Flash FloodWebster-A car was stuck in water on Route 104 and North Ave.
September 2024Flash FloodWebster-Several feet of water was on Park Road.
July 2020Flash FloodWest Webster-Five Mile Lane Road was flooded.
May 2019HailWebster-Pea to dime sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Penfield Center3.1 miles26
Roseland3.1 miles26
West Webster3.6 miles26
Forest Lawn4.6 miles31
Glen Edith4.8 miles31
Oklahoma Beach5.0 miles31
Glen Haven5.5 miles31
Bay View5.5 miles31

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 WebsterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7978889The 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 968985. 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.