Alma, New York

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1925 1986

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.

• 1925 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1939 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Allentown quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Alma between 1995 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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:

• Hoben
• South Bolivar
• Allentown
• Kossuth
• Pikeville
• Sawyer

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 226 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alma between 1920 and 1967: 212 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Charles Robins; John New; Robert Dickerman, D. B. Ward, Dilger, William C. 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
	Puccinia veratri (DC.) Duby	1931	H. H. Whetzel	Wooded hillside along main highway
	Clitocybe cartilaginea (Bull.) Bres.	1934	W. F. Wilson
	Lepiota procera (Scop.) Gray	1935	W. F. Wilson
	Albugo tragopogonis (Pers.) Gray	1920	Shaughnessy, E. T.	Wellsville
	Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1926	John Greely	Ford Cr. [Brook]
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1926	John Greely	Allen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1926	John Greely	Allen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
	Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1926	John Greely	Allen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1926	John Greely	Allen Brook, trib. to Knight Cr.
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1926	John Greely	Marsh Cr.
	Exoglossum maxillingua (Lesueur, 1817)	1926	John Greely	Marsh Cr.
	Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1926	John Greely	Marsh Cr.

All 226 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alma in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 6 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942387. 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.

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.