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Weltonville, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Candor town. It lies in ZIP code area 13811. It stands on Doolittle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newark Valley quadrangle.

Weltonville within Tioga County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Weltonville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Weltonville, surveyed 1901

On record in Weltonville

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

92 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Weltonville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined49
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural8
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tioga County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Weltonville: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
C.Miller No.1 WellSaltProspect
Catatonk PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Owego Town of Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tioga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weltonville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 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
June 2015Flash FloodWeltonville$400,000Water was flooding County Route 38 at Rock Street. Several other points to the east of the Village of Newark Valley had water across roadways with numerous culvert washouts.
September 2010Flash FloodWeltonville$50,000Heavy rain caused flash flooding in a few areas of Newark Valley. The most serious flooding occurred where water and debris flowed downhill across Rock Street to Irishtown Road. Both roads were closed due to flooding. The flood waters and debris flowed across Rock Street to Slosson Creek, which overflowed. Water continued across Route 38 in the Village of Newark Valley. Homes were flooded along Mill Street and Clinton Street where the creek overflowed. Elsewhere in the village, the Owego Creek flooded the Trout Ponds recreation area. Flash flooding also occurred along Route 38B in the town of Newark Valley due to a mud slide.
May 2014HailWeltonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tioga 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
Flemingville2.2 miles29
Fairfield3.0 miles21
West Newark3.3 miles29
Hamar Estates3.4 miles21
Hubbardtown3.8 miles21
Newark Valley3.8 miles29
Owego Heights4.2 miles21
Catatonk4.2 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q122547008The 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 969060. 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.