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Albion, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Albion town. It lies in ZIP code area 14411. The Survey maps it on the Albion quadrangle. 5,637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

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Albion within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

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 Albion, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Albion, surveyed 1897

On record in Albion

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Albion fell from 6,056 to 5,637 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
20106,056
20205,637-419 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

134 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Albion between 2001 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 41 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/undetermined58
Arson/incendiarism41
Natural10
Smoking9
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Albion: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit No 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit No 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huckell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 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
July 2006Flash FloodAlbion$200,000no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodAlbion$50,000no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodAlbion$50,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindAlbion$25,000no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodAlbion$25,000no account filed
September 1998HailAlbion$20,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAlbion$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds..
August 2016Thunderstorm WindAlbion$15,000Law enforcement report trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 1998Flash FloodAlbion$15,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000A tree was downed onto a trailer.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Officials reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on Crimson Heights Road.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on Zig Zag Road.
June 2008HailAlbion$10,000no account filed
July 2008HailAlbion$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindAlbion$3,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodAlbion$1,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodAlbion$1,000no account filed
August 2011HailAlbion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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
Oak Orchard Estates0.7 miles14
Heritage Estates0.8 miles14
Five Corners1.1 miles14
Gaines Basin1.8 miles14
Richs Corners2.6 miles20
Childs2.8 miles14
Gaines2.9 miles14
Eagle Harbor3.2 miles17

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 AlbionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2831925The 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 942246. 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.

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.