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West Exeter, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Exeter town. It lies in ZIP code area 13491. It lies near Welch Hill. The Survey maps it on the Unadilla Forks quadrangle.

West Exeter within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 Exeter, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West Exeter, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of West Exeter between 1995 and 2018, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Natural1
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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkBURLINGTON FLATS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Exeter in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Exeter$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down numerous trees and powerlines between 6961 and 7400 block of NY-51. NY-51 was closed near NY-23.
May 2014Flash FloodWest Exeter$10,000Water was flowing across State Highway 51.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Exeter$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on Carson Road.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWest Exeter$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Exeter$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto wires on Curley Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Exeter$1,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a home.
June 2015Funnel CloudWest Exeter-A thunderstorm developed over the area and produced a rotating wall cloud. A funnel was reported with this wall cloud.
September 2019HailWest Exeter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Huntly Corners1.9 miles16
Pecktown2.0 miles16
Plainfield Center2.9 miles16
Exeter Corner4.1 miles17
Burlington Flats4.3 miles16
Dogtown4.5 miles17
Lloydsville4.8 miles16
Chapinville5.0 miles16

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 Q122589309The 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 969218. 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.