Balcom Beach, New York

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.

1906 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.

• 1906 USGS Angelica quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1941 USGS Angelica quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Houghton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Houghton quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Balcom Beach between 1993 and 2019, burning about 71 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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:

• Caneadea
• Hillcrest
• Houghton
• McGrawville
• Oramel
• Rushford

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 203 specimens collected within 10 miles of Balcom Beach between 1860 and 1974: 132 Animalia, 61 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Ball & King, Ball, G. E. 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
	Coleosporium Lév., 1847	1936	T.B. Rundle
	Septoria convolvuli Desm.	1939	M. F. Barrus	Smith Bros. Farm
	Sebacina Tul. & C.Tul.	1953	Stanley J. Smith & Eugene C. Ogden	woods near Genesee River, south of Belfast
	Leucichthys Dybowski, 1874	1860	C. Heacox	Caneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
	Acronicta albarufa Grote, 1874	1877	Lintner	Center
	Acronicta tritona Hübner, 1818	1877	Lintner	Center
	Epiglaea decliva Grote, 1874	1877	not recorded	Center
	Lithophane amanda Smith, 1900	1877	Lintner	Center
	Lithophane querquera Grote, 1874	1877	Hill, W.W.	Center
	Lithophane semiusta Grote, 1874	1877	Lintner	Center
	Lithophane tepida Grote, 1874	1877	Hill, W.W.	Center
	Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1885	Charles C. Cook	Centerville

All 203 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942846. 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.