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West Oneonta, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oneonta town. It lies in ZIP code area 13861. It lies near Hell Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Oneonta quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

West Oneonta within Otsego County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 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 Oneonta, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of West Oneonta, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of West Oneonta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 July 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Oneonta: 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
Meredith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley View RoadSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Oneonta in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWest Oneonta$8,000Widely scattered trees were snapped and uprooted.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWest Oneonta$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees along Highway 8.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Oneonta$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down wires.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Oneonta$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees across a road and damaged power poles.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Oneonta$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto the road.
August 2020HailWest Oneonta-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
West End1.3 miles18
Oneonta3.1 miles18
Otsdawa3.2 miles15
Mill Creek Estates3.5 miles15
Laurens4.3 miles18
West Laurens4.9 miles16
Emmons5.6 miles18
Otego6.0 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on West OneontaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740528The 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 970832. 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.