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Blakeley, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Aurora town. It lies in ZIP code area 14052. The Survey maps it on the Holland quadrangle.

Blakeley within Erie County

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blakeley, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Blakeley, surveyed 1925

Compare 1925 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

129 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Blakeley between 2003 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 18 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/undetermined76
Natural18
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blakeley in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBlakeley$500Tree downed on Centerline Road near Blakeley Corners Road.

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
South Wales2.1 miles15
Colegrave2.1 miles15
East Aurora2.4 miles19
Taylorshire3.3 miles16
Billington Heights3.7 miles21
Griffins Mills3.9 miles16
Wales Center4.1 miles19
Porterville4.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944216. 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.

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.