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West Cambridge, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cambridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 12816. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Bridge quadrangle.

West Cambridge within Washington County

Then and now

1897 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Cambridge, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of West Cambridge, surveyed 1897

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

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of West Cambridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning23
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
5 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 June 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 June 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 May 2015Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Cambridge in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindWest Cambridge-Multiple trees were downed on Center Cambridge Road.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Center Cambridge1.4 miles29
Fly Summit1.6 miles27
South Cambridge1.8 miles29
Lee2.3 miles29
South Easton2.3 miles30
North Cambridge2.9 miles27
Archdale3.0 miles27
Barkers Grove3.8 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973223. 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.

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.