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West Webster, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Webster town. It lies in ZIP code area 14580. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle.

West Webster within Monroe County

Then and now

1900 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 84 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 Webster, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of West Webster, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

816 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 816 fires within 5 miles of West Webster between 2000 and 2020, burning about 587 acres in total. 76 started naturally. 104 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/undetermined372
Smoking165
Arson/incendiarism104
Natural76
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use28
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Recreation and ceremony4

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 September 2020Debris and open burning1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Smoking6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Smoking6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Webster: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Penfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dewitt Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Redman PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Webster in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWest Webster$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree which fell on a house.
July 2020Flash FloodWest Webster-Five Mile Lane Road was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Glen Edith1.3 miles31
Bay View2.0 miles31
Glen Haven2.0 miles31
Newport2.1 miles31
Oklahoma Beach2.6 miles31
German Village2.8 miles31
Sea Breeze3.0 miles31
Forest Lawn3.1 miles31

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 Q122591599The 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 970889. 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.