Alfred, New York

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1916 1986

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 6 records

• Alfred Village Historic Districtlisted 1985
• Alumni Halllisted 1985
• Fireman's Halllisted 1980
• Alfred Steinheim Museumlisted 1973
• Terra Cotta Buildinglisted 1972
• Reynolds House, Thelisted 2022

Alfred fell from 4,174 to 4,026 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.

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.

• 1916 USGS Canaseraga quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1940 USGS Canaseraga quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1964 USGS Alfred quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Alfred between 2002 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Tip Top
• Alfred Station
• Tinkertown
• Andover
• Phillips Creek
• Belmont

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 206 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alfred between 1870 and 1973: 118 Animalia, 78 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hazzard, A. L. Moldenke, A. P. Garber and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Phragmidium subcorticium (Schrank) G.Winter	1925	Elrene Crandall
	unnamed (fossil)	1953	Hugo R. Greiner	ss, 1740-ft elev., N side of rd along N side of Vandermark Creek, & .2 mi E of S-flowing tributary, & 2 mi E of Scio
	Diplolepis rosae (Linnaeus, 1758)	1967	W.T. Johnson	east of Andover
	Salix bebbiana Sarg.	1870	A. P. Garber	Andover
	Haemorhous purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1885	not recorded	Alfred
	Aquilegia canadensis L.	1887	De Alton Saunders & La Forge	Alfred
	Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M.Roem.	1888	DeAlton Saunders	Alfred Centre; 42.25417 -77.79083
	Anemone quinquefolia var. interior Fernald	1888	De Alton Saunders	Alfred
	Aquilegia vulgaris L.	1888	De Alton Saunders	Alfred Centre
	Asarum canadense L.	1888	De Alton Saunders	Alfred Centre
	Caltha palustris L.	1888	De Alton Saunders	Alfred Centre
	Cardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1888	DeAlton Saunders	Alfred Centre, N.Y.

All 206 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alfred: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Every working recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alfred in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Allegany County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942313. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.