Balltown, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanover town. It lies in ZIP code area 14062. It stands on Wheeler Brook. The Survey maps it on the Perrysburg quadrangle.

Balltown within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Balltown, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Balltown, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1900 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1941 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Perrysburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 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 Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

81 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Balltown between 2000 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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	61
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Smith Mills	1.6 miles	18
Nashville	2.2 miles	18
Parcells Corners	2.5 miles	18
Hanover Center	3.9 miles	18
Dennison Corners	3.9 miles	17
Keaches Corners	4.6 miles	17
Wango	5.0 miles	18
Forestville	5.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942937. 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.