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Westville Center, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Westville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12926. It stands on Plum Brook. The Survey maps it on the Fort Covington quadrangle.

Westville Center within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westville Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Westville Center, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

133 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Westville Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined73
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning14
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresNew York Forest RangersDEBYAH FIRE
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 Westville Center: 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
Constable PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fleury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westville Center in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindWestville Center$30,000Numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds along with some minor property damage. NWS storm survey conducted and concluded straight-line winds estimated at 70 mph.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWestville Center$10,000Several trees and power lines down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWestville Center$5,000Trees and utility lones down on Fay road.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Westville1.7 miles18
Fort Covington Center3.6 miles17
Fay4.6 miles17
Constable5.4 miles17
Trout River5.7 miles18
Fort Covington6.1 miles18
North Bangor7.1 miles16
Malone8.5 miles18

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 Q122544472The 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 970951. 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.