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Camp Pioneer, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Evans town. It lies in ZIP code area 14006. It stands on Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Angola quadrangle.

Camp Pioneer within Erie County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

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 Camp Pioneer, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Camp Pioneer, surveyed 1899

Compare 1899 against another survey:

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

140 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Camp Pioneer between 2000 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural15
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie 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 Camp Pioneer: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hanover PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hanover Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Lake Erie Beach1.0 miles17
Angola Lake Shore Addition1.4 miles17
Angola-on-the-Lake1.8 miles17
Saint Vencent de Paul Camp1.9 miles17
Camp Lakeland2.6 miles17
Farnham2.7 miles17
Angola2.8 miles17
Evans Center3.0 miles17

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 Q122552878The 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 945643. 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.