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Windecker, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Harrisburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 13367. The Survey maps it on the West Lowville quadrangle.

Windecker within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Windecker, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Windecker, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

23 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Windecker between 2004 and 2018, burning about 23 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 May 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windecker in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2014HailWindecker$5,000no account filed
September 2010FloodWindecker$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Harrisburg3.0 miles19
West Lowville3.5 miles19
Bellwood3.7 miles20
Rector4.6 miles20
Parkers5.6 miles20
West Martinsburg5.7 miles19
Clark Corners6.4 miles19
Lowville6.4 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122568214The 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 973276. 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.