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Abbotts, New York

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ischua town. It lies in ZIP code area 14727. The Survey maps it on the Rawson quadrangle.

Abbotts within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1924 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Abbotts, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Abbotts, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Abbotts between 1992 and 2019, burning about 93 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined55
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abbotts in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAbbotts$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAbbotts$2,000Many trees downed in Lyndon.
June 2025Flash FloodAbbotts-Flooding occurring with multiple road closures throughout township.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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
Lyndon3.8 miles13
Ischua4.3 miles19
Maplehurst6.3 miles19
Fitch6.3 miles13
Hinsdale7.1 miles19
Haskell Flats7.3 miles20
Cadiz9.0 miles13
Franklinville9.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942120. 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.