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Woodgate, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Forestport town. It lies in ZIP code area 13494. It stands on White Lake Outlet. The Survey maps it on the Woodgate quadrangle. It stands 1,480 feet above sea level.

Woodgate within Oneida County

Then and now

1912 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Woodgate, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Woodgate, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Woodgate between 1995 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning5
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBRANDY LAKE FIRE
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodgate in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 3 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWoodgate$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires on several roads in the area.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodgate$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWoodgate$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
White Lake1.2 miles22
Otter Lake5.4 miles22
Forestport6.1 miles25
Woodhull6.4 miles25
Hawkinsville6.7 miles20
Alder Creek7.7 miles25
Honnedaga9.9 miles25
Boonville10.0 miles20

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 WoodgateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740363The 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 971631. 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.