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Ashville, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in North Harmony town. It lies in ZIP code area 14710. It stands on Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Panama quadrangle. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.

Ashville within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ashville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ashville, surveyed 1904

On record in Ashville

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

144 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Ashville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined69
Debris and open burning23
Natural19
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2017Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2015Debris and open burning13 acresNew York Forest RangersGORDON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ashville: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. 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
Kyle Morse No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
Cassadaga Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
W. Lee Bull Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
W. Lee Bull Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindAshville$12,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees blocking Route 474.
June 2009Flash FloodAshville$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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
Maple Point1.0 miles17
Loomises1.0 miles17
Vukote1.1 miles17
Boomertown1.2 miles17
Shermans Bay1.5 miles17
Niets Crest1.7 miles16
Long View2.1 miles16
Blockville2.2 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 AshvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4806153The 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 942643. 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.