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Attica Center, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Attica town. It lies in ZIP code area 14011. The Survey maps it on the Dale quadrangle.

Attica Center within Wyoming County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Attica Center, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Attica Center, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

56 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Attica Center between 2003 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning7
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
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
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Attica Center: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine. 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
Middlebury BrinefieldBrominePast ProducerBrine
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J.Mattison WellSaltPast Producer
L.C.Wilkie WellSaltPast Producer
M.Chase No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Middlebury BrinefieldSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Attica Center in 1 storm report in 2016: 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 WindAttica Center$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires at the intersection of Exchange and Glor Roads.

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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
South Attica2.2 miles16
Dale3.3 miles19
Dutch Flats3.4 miles16
Millers Crossing3.5 miles19
Sierks3.6 miles16
Attica4.1 miles16
Orangeville Center4.6 miles19
Beehive Crossing4.6 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122594932The 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 942678. 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.