Bowler, New York

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1925 1986

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.

• 1925 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1939 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:24000, 2 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 39 fires within 5 miles of Bowler between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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:

• Ceres
• Sanford
• Little Genesee
• Obi
• Bolivar
• Bellville

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 74 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bowler between 1917 and 1967: 46 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Robins, Charles Robins; John New; Robert Dickerman, D. B. Ward 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
	Xylaria Hill ex Schrank, 1789	1917	E. E. Honey
	Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)	1938	Sherman Bishop	Wolf Cr.
	Notropis volucellus (Cope, 1865)	1938	Sherman Bishop	Wolf Cr.
	Schizachne purpurascens (Torr.) Swallen	1939	R. T. Clausen	rocky woods on western slope of Alma Hill
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1940	Roman Pfeiffer	Dodge Cr., 2 mi. NE of Bedford Corners
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1940	Roman Pfeiffer	Wolf Cr. above entrance of Dodge Cr.
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1940	Roman Pfeiffer	Dodge Cr., 2 mi. NE of Bedford Corners
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1940	Roman Pfeiffer	Wolf Cr. above entrance of Dodge Cr.
	Etheostoma olmstedi Storer, 1842	1940	Roman Pfeiffer	Wolf Cr. above entrance of Dodge Cr.
	Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1940	Roman Pfeiffer	Dodge Cr., 2 mi. NE of Bedford Corners
	Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1940	Roman Pfeiffer	Dodge Cr., 2 mi. NE of Bedford Corners
	Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1940	Roman Pfeiffer	Wolf Cr. above entrance of Dodge Cr.

All 74 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bowler: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972252. 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.

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.