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Belvidere, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Amity town. It lies in ZIP code area 14813. It stands on Van Campen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Angelica quadrangle.

Belvidere within Allegany County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

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 Belvidere, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Belvidere, surveyed 1906

On record in Belvidere

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

40 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Belvidere between 2001 and 2017, burning about 87 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning11
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
31 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 May 2017Debris and open burning1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 236 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 236 specimens collected within 10 miles of Belvidere between 1877 and 1974: 196 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Latta, Arnold, C. P., Arnold, Charles 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul.Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul.1877Ch. H. PeckSummit
Specimen of Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) CordaCalypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda1887Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
Specimen of Lejeunea cavifolia (Ehrh.) Lindb.Lejeunea cavifolia (Ehrh.) Lindb.1887Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
A photograph of the species Sphacelotheca hydropiperis, not of this specimenSphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary1877Peck Ch. H.Summit
A photograph of the species Clavaria fusiformis, not of this specimenClavaria fusiformis Sowerby1885not recordedPeat Moss, Brookton
A photograph of the species Usnea Dill., not of this specimenUsnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631888De Alton SaundersVandermark Creek
Specimen of Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt.Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt.1889Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
A photograph of the species Carex interior, not of this specimenCarex interior L.H.Bailey1896G. T. HastingsSummit
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1896F. S. WrightNEW YORK: Allegany County; Angelica
A photograph of the species Glyceria striata, not of this specimenGlyceria striata (Lam.) Hitchc.1896G. T. HastingsSummit.
A photograph of the species Chordeiles minor, not of this specimenChordeiles minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)1898Harry WilberScio
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898C.F. StoneFriendship

All 236 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belvidere in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBelvidere$20,000no account filed
July 2018Flash FloodBelvidere$5,000Several roads closed with water and debris in the Town of Belfast, and Route 41 closed south of the Town of Belfast with debris over the road.

Every storm recorded in Allegany 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
Belmont2.5 miles15
Valley View Estates3.6 miles15
Withey3.9 miles19
Angelica4.3 miles17
Friendship5.3 miles15
Rockville6.7 miles17
Belfast6.7 miles17
Nile7.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943645. 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.