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West Martinsburg, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Martinsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 13367. The Survey maps it on the West Lowville quadrangle.

West Martinsburg within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 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 Martinsburg, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of West Martinsburg, surveyed 1902

On record in West Martinsburg

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

44 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of West Martinsburg between 1999 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined18
Natural11
Debris and open burning6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 August 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2020Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 July 1999Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Martinsburg: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Martinsburg DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, SulfurOccurrence
Town of Lowville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Martinsburg in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindWest Martinsburg$15,000no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Martinsburg$500A large tree was downed across Centreville Road.
July 2024Flash FloodWest Martinsburg-Centerville Road washed out.
July 2024Flash FloodWest Martinsburg-Water flowing across Rector Road near Swernicki Road. Rector Road washed out in some areas.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Lowville2.3 miles18
West Lowville2.8 miles19
Martinsburg3.0 miles21
Dadville4.0 miles18
Watson4.5 miles18
Wetmore4.8 miles18
East Martinsburg4.9 miles21
Windecker5.7 miles19

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 Q122591847The 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 970789. 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.