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Whitney Point, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Triangle town. It lies in ZIP code area 13862. It stands on Otselic River. The Survey maps it on the Whitney Point quadrangle. 960 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Whitney Point within Broome County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whitney Point, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Whitney Point, surveyed 1904

On record in Whitney Point

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Whitney Point fell from 964 to 960 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
2010964
2020960-4 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Whitney Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2

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
12 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 July 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 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 Broome 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 Whitney Point: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Harry Pease No.1 WellSaltProspect

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitney Point in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 5 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 1994Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$1,000no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$500no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWhitney Point$500no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
Meadowbrooke Estates0.4 miles17
Dorchester Estates1.1 miles17
Lisle2.4 miles20
Hydeville3.3 miles17
Itaska3.8 miles17
Manningville4.6 miles20
Upper Lisle4.7 miles15
Triangle4.7 miles17

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 Whitney PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q950778The 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 971191. 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.