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Westville, New York

18 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 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, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Westville, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

122 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Westville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 17 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/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning12
Natural7
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Westville: 1 producer. 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
Fort Covington Highway Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westville in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWestville$5,000no account filed

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
Westville Center1.7 miles17
Fort Covington Center2.7 miles17
Fort Covington4.5 miles18
Trout River6.1 miles18
Fay6.2 miles17
Constable6.7 miles17
Bombay8.2 miles15
North Bangor8.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970949. 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.