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Angola, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Evans town. It lies in ZIP code area 14006. The Survey maps it on the Angola quadrangle. 2,046 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Angola within Erie County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

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 Angola, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Angola, surveyed 1899

Compare 1899 against another survey:

On record in Angola

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Angola fell from 2,127 to 2,046 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
20102,127
20202,046-81 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

185 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Angola between 2000 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined91
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural25
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use5
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 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angola in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
January 1999Flash FloodAngola$135,000no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodAngola$55,000no account filed
June 1994Tornado (F0)Angola$50,000Thunderstorms which moved onshore from Lake Erie produced damaging winds and spawned a weak tornado. The tornado mainly uprooted trees, one of which fell onto a house.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAngola$40,000no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodAngola$40,000no account filed
March 2002SeicheAngola$35,000no account filed
November 2013Thunderstorm WindAngola$15,000The media reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds in Angola.
April 2001HailAngola$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAngola$2,000Multiple trees were downed in Angola.
February 2026HailAngola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Evans Center1.4 miles17
Angola-on-the-Lake1.6 miles17
Saint Vencent de Paul Camp2.1 miles17
Lake Erie Beach2.3 miles17
Camp Lakeland2.7 miles17
Camp Pioneer2.8 miles17
Jerusalem Corners3.2 miles17
Pontiac3.3 miles16

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 AngolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1843821The 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 942483. 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.