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Bergholtz, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wheatfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 14304. The Survey maps it on the Tonawanda West quadrangle.

Bergholtz within Niagara County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bergholtz, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bergholtz, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

505 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 505 fires within 5 miles of Bergholtz between 2000 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 98 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/undetermined255
Arson/incendiarism98
Natural61
Debris and open burning31
Smoking26
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bergholtz: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Niagara Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Niagara St0ne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bergholtz in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 hail. 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 2007HailBergholtz$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Niagara 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
Saint Johnsburg1.3 miles30
Walmore1.8 miles30
Black Creek Village2.6 miles30
Sanborn2.6 miles28
Love Canal2.6 miles30
Nashville2.8 miles28
La Salle3.5 miles30
Colonial Village3.8 miles28

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122569610The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943727. 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.