Cambria Center, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cambria town. It lies in ZIP code area 14094. The Survey maps it on the Cambria quadrangle.

Cambria Center 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 Cambria Center, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Cambria Center, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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.

1897 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1900 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1948 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

104 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Cambria Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 40 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/undetermined	45
Arson/incendiarism	40
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Eastern Regional Office	BOND #1
23 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Eastern Regional Office	TUSCARORA #5 (17-163)
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Streeters Corners	1.7 miles	27
North Ridge	2.4 miles	27
Molyneaux Corners	2.5 miles	27
Comstock Corners	3.0 miles	27
Hickory Corners	3.5 miles	27
Pekin	3.5 miles	28
Shawnee	3.6 miles	27
Lockport Junction	3.7 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945507. 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.