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Castile, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Castile town. It lies in ZIP code area 14427. The Survey maps it on the Castile quadrangle. 970 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.

Castile within Wyoming 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 Castile, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Castile, surveyed 1905

Population over time

3 figures

Castile fell from 1,051 to 970 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,051
20101,015-36 (-3%)
2020970-45 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

59 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Castile between 2003 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Castile: 8 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine. 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
Silver Springs PlantBrominePast ProducerBrine
Portage Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
A.Kerr Bros.& Co.WellSaltPast Producer
Castile Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
Duncan Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
Gainesville Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
J.Harding No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Morton Salt Co.Salt Well No.13.SaltPast Producer
Morton Salt/ Silver Springs PlantSaltUnknown

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castile in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 hail. 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
August 2008Flash FloodCastile$45,000no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindCastile$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCastile$10,000no account filed
November 2005HailCastile$10,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCastile$8,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 1996Flash FloodCastile$8,000no account filed
May 2004HailCastile$5,000no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindCastile$5,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindCastile$2,000Trees and wires reported down.
July 2023Flash FloodCastile-Portions of Park Road and other hiking trails in Letchworth Park closed due to flooding.
June 2014HailCastile-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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
Chace2.6 miles17
Silver Springs2.7 miles17
Fairview3.6 miles17
Silver Lake Junction3.6 miles17
Lamont3.8 miles18
Portageville4.2 miles18
Gainesville4.3 miles17
Rock Glen5.2 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.

Wikipedia article on CastileAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q601960The 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 945981. 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.