Williams Grove, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Otisco town. It lies in ZIP code area 13110. It stands on Rice Brook. The Survey maps it on the Spafford quadrangle.

Williams Grove within Onondaga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Williams Grove, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Williams Grove, surveyed 1899

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.

1899 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1943 USGS Spafford quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Skaneateles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Spafford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

102 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Williams Grove between 2000 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined	38
Debris and open burning	27
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Natural	7
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams Grove in 1 storm report in 2017: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2017	Flash Flood	Williams Grove	$88,000	Widespread flash flooding of most creeks and urbanized areas occurred throughout the town of Tully. Culverts and roads were washed out in several places. Some residences experienced flooding.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rice Grove	0.3 miles	26
Gamble Mill	0.6 miles	26
Bay Shores	1.5 miles	26
Otisco Valley	1.8 miles	27
Spafford Valley	1.9 miles	27
Otisco	2.0 miles	27
Spafford	3.1 miles	26
Heath Grove	3.3 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971309. 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.