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West Chenango, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chenango town. It lies in ZIP code area 13905. The Survey maps it on the Castle Creek quadrangle.

West Chenango within Broome County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 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 Chenango, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of West Chenango, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of West Chenango between 1992 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking13
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome 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 West Chenango: 2 producers. 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
Boland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chenango Bridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Chenango in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWest Chenango$7,500Strong thunderstorm winds damaged the roof on a horse barn.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindWest Chenango$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires on Upper Stella Ireland Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWest Chenango$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on power lines.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWest Chenango$2,000Power lines were blown down on East Maine Road near Commercial Drive.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindWest Chenango$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Airport Road.
July 2011HailWest Chenango-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
New Ireland1.6 miles23
East Maine1.7 miles23
Castle Creek3.0 miles23
Glen Castle3.3 miles23
Fortress Estates3.7 miles23
Choconut Center4.1 miles23
Newmans Corner4.4 miles23
Hinmans Corners4.4 miles23

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 Q122570986The 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 969177. 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.