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Bushville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Batavia town. It lies in ZIP code area 14020. The Survey maps it on the Oakfield quadrangle.

Bushville within Genesee 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 Bushville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bushville, surveyed 1897

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

202 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Bushville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined106
Natural29
Smoking23
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bushville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Leroy Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Batavia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Creek Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Creek Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bushville in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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
April 2017FloodBushville$30,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Ridgewood Village1.0 miles17
West Batavia2.7 miles19
East Pembroke2.8 miles19
Cookville3.7 miles17
Batavia3.8 miles18
North Pembroke4.3 miles17
Oakfield4.4 miles17
Daws4.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945326. 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.