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Willet, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Willet town. It lies in ZIP code area 13863. It stands on Willet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willet quadrangle.

Willet within Cortland 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 Willet, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Willet, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

45 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Willet between 1998 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 May 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 May 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willet in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash 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
September 2011Flash FloodWillet$75,000Flash flooding of streams and creeks occurred. Many roads were closed due to flooding.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWillet$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Route 41.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWillet$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWillet$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a trees onto the road.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindWillet$1,000Several trees were blown down in town.
April 2006HailWillet-Nickel and dime size hail covered the ground.
May 2004Funnel CloudWillet-Multiple reports of funnel clouds to Cortland County 911 center.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWillet-Thunderstorm winds brought trees down.
May 2013HailWillet-no account filed
May 2013HailWillet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cortland 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
Georgetown1.0 miles15
Gee Brook2.8 miles16
Texas Valley3.5 miles15
Lower Cincinnatus4.4 miles16
Cincinnatus5.1 miles16
Galatia6.4 miles22
Marathon6.7 miles22
Taylor6.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971290. 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.

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.