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Woodsville, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in West Sparta town. It lies in ZIP code area 14437. The Survey maps it on the Dansville quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Woodsville within Livingston County

Then and now

1902 to 1983

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 Woodsville, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Woodsville, surveyed 1902

On record in Woodsville

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Woodsville fell from 80 to 70 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
201080
202070-10 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

166 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Woodsville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 203 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined109
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural11
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking5
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2020Recreation and ceremony2.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Woodsville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Dansville WellSaltPast Producer
Gruschow No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Highway Department PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Highway Department PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston 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
Cumminsville0.7 miles24
Dansville2.1 miles24
Reed Corners3.1 miles24
Byersville3.2 miles20
West Sparta4.2 miles21
Ossian4.5 miles20
Westview5.1 miles20
Kysorville6.0 miles21

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 WoodsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6168234The 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 971723. 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.