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Wevertown, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Johnsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12886. It lies near Mill Mountain. The Survey maps it on the North Creek quadrangle. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.

Wevertown within Warren County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wevertown, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Wevertown, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

81 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Wevertown between 2000 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined35
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2

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
28 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPALMER POND
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresNew York Forest RangersWASHER HILL
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Wevertown: 7 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Garnet, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, 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
Oven Mountain MineGarnet, Sulfur-Pyrite, FeldsparPast Producer1897, 1925
Rowland MineGraphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, QuartzPast Producer1837, 1900, 1910
Warrensburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rowland Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Johnsburg DepositGarnetProspect
Oven Mountain DepositGarnetPast Producer
Rexford DepositGarnetPast Producer
Rexford MineGarnetPast Producer1892, 1897
Sander Brothers MineGarnetPast Producer1907, 1912, 1925
Wevertown DepositGarnetProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wevertown in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 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
March 2010FloodWevertown$25,000A bridge was reported washed out on Harrington Road in Johnsburg due to a possible beaver dam break along Johnson Brook.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Johnsburg1.5 miles27
Riparius3.0 miles26
Sodom3.1 miles26
Holcombville4.4 miles26
Bakers Mills4.6 miles25
North Creek5.0 miles26
The Glen5.4 miles25
Edwards Hill5.5 miles27

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 WevertownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7990216The 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 970960. 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.