Belfast, 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

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

• Rail and Titsworth Canal Warehouselisted 2000

Belfast fell from 837 to 745 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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 Angelica quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Belfast between 1993 and 2019, burning about 71 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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:

• Oramel
• Caneadea
• Rockville
• Balcom Beach
• Hillcrest
• Houghton

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 284 specimens collected within 10 miles of Belfast between 1860 and 1974: 207 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 18 Fungi, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Latta, Andrew R. Moldenke, Arnold, C. P. 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
	Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda	1887	Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
	Lejeunea cavifolia (Ehrh.) Lindb.	1887	Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
	Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt.	1889	Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
	Leucichthys Dybowski, 1874	1860	C. Heacox	Caneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
	Clavaria fusiformis Sowerby	1885	not recorded	Peat Moss, Brookton
	Carex pallescens L.	1895	H. H. Taylor	McGrawville. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Carex swanii (Fernald) Mack.	1895	H. Taylor	McGrawville [=possibly New Hudson, in Allegany County, NY.]
	Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1896	F. S. Wright	NEW YORK: Allegany County; Angelica
	Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1898	C.F. Stone	Friendship
	Alternaria Nees	1904	Latta	Friendship
	Alternaria panax Whetzel	1910	Osner G.	MCGRAWVILLE
	Sclerotinia Fuckel, 1870	1910	Osner G.	MCGRAWVILLE

All 284 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belfast in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Allegany County

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 943574. 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.

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.