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Carnegie, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hamburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 14075. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle.

Carnegie within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carnegie, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Carnegie, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

397 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 397 fires within 5 miles of Carnegie between 2000 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 54 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/undetermined231
Natural74
Arson/incendiarism54
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2007Missing 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 Carnegie: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Boston Valley Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Boston Valley Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carnegie in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 1 hail, 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 2017FloodCarnegie$5,000no account filed
August 2013HailCarnegie-no account filed

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
Scranton0.7 miles18
Forest Glen1.1 miles18
Athol Springs1.9 miles25
Locksley Park2.1 miles22
Bay View2.3 miles25
Hamburg2.3 miles18
Clover Bank2.4 miles15
Deonundaga (historical)2.4 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945866. 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.