Angola-on-the-Lake, 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. It stands on Delaware Creek. The Survey maps it on the Angola quadrangle.

Angola-on-the-Lake 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-on-the-Lake, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Angola-on-the-Lake, surveyed 1899

Compare 1899 against another survey:

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.

1899 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1944 USGS Angola quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Angola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

168 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Angola-on-the-Lake between 2000 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 22 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/undetermined	83
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	24
Natural	22
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint Vencent de Paul Camp	0.5 miles	17
Evans Center	1.2 miles	17
Camp Lakeland	1.2 miles	17
Angola	1.6 miles	17
Camp Pioneer	1.8 miles	17
Lake Erie Beach	1.9 miles	17
Jerusalem Corners	3.1 miles	17
Angola Lake Shore Addition	3.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942485. 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.