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.
Then and now
1895 to 1985The 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.


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.
Solvay Public Librarylisted 2007 · 1.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresWestvale 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,963 | |
| 2020 | 5,090 | +127 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1939 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Syracuse West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
363 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 179 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 61 |
| Natural | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Smoking | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 8 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 7 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syracuse Pottery Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2025Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westvale | 1 hurt, $110,000 | Strong 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westvale | $1,000 | Strong 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairmount | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Solvay | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Taunton | 1.3 miles | 29 | |
| Split Rock | 1.6 miles | 29 | |
| Stanley Manor | 2.0 miles | 24 | |
| West Genesee Terrace | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Sherwood Knolls | 2.2 miles | 24 | |
| Westview Manor | 2.6 miles | 24 |
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 Westvale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q959543 | The 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.










