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Beaver Falls, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Croghan town. It lies in ZIP code area 13620. It stands on Widmeyer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Croghan quadrangle.

Beaver Falls within Lewis County

Then and now

1911 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beaver Falls, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Beaver Falls, surveyed 1911

On record in Beaver Falls

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Falls between 1995 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Beaver Falls: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Croghan PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Croghan PlantGranitePast ProducerGranite
Croghan Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lehman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lyndaker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New Bremen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Falls in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 6 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$35,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$11,000Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours producing damaging winds and small hail. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines resulting in scattered power outages.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$10,000A tree fell onto a house with with wires down as well.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$8,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$6,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$2,000Trees and wires reported down.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Croghan2.0 miles18
New Bremen3.5 miles18
Naumburg3.7 miles18
High Falls3.8 miles18
Castorland4.4 miles20
Forest City4.6 miles18
Kirschnerville4.8 miles18
Belfort5.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943383. 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.