BlockBefore

Wellwood, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mexico town. It lies in ZIP code area 13114. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle.

Wellwood within Oswego County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wellwood, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Wellwood, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

108 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Wellwood between 2001 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism23
Smoking7
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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 Wellwood: 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
Gulliver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellwood in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. 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 2017HailWellwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
Mungers Corners1.2 miles21
Vermilion1.5 miles21
Cribbs Corner2.7 miles21
Clifford2.9 miles21
Russ Mills3.2 miles22
Mexico3.4 miles18
Palermo3.7 miles23
Upson Corners3.8 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970754. 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.