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Westvale, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Geddes town. It lies in ZIP code area 13219. It stands on Split Rock Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Syracuse West quadrangle. 5,090 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Westvale within Onondaga County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westvale, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Westvale, surveyed 1895

On record in Westvale

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Westvale grew from 4,963 to 5,090 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20104,963
20205,090+127 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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

363 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 363 fires within 5 miles of Westvale between 2000 and 2020, burning about 239 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 61 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/undetermined179
Arson/incendiarism61
Natural34
Equipment and vehicle use27
Smoking20
Debris and open burning16
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Westvale: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westvale in 2 storm reports in 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWestvale1 hurt, $110,000Strong thunderstorm winds led to a large tent collapsing outside of Gate 4 of the Great New York State Fair and brought down a utility wire onto State Fair Boulevard. The storm collapsed a large jumbotron at the NY State Police exhibit while also downing trees in a part of the fairgrounds. There were dozens of instances of mostly minor damage from fair vendors, though some heavily damaged tents or awnings. Someone was injured when a rope-tethered plank of wood got caught by the wind and struck them.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWestvale$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and large branches at the New York State Fairgrounds. The damaging winds were associated with the strong outflow boundary from the storm.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
Fairmount1.0 miles29
Solvay1.0 miles29
Taunton1.3 miles29
Split Rock1.6 miles29
Stanley Manor2.0 miles24
West Genesee Terrace2.1 miles24
Sherwood Knolls2.2 miles24
Westview Manor2.6 miles24

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 WestvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959543The 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 970945. 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.