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Cattaraugus, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Albion town. It lies in ZIP code area 14719. It lies near Waite Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cattaraugus quadrangle. 960 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,375 feet above sea level.

Cattaraugus within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1923 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cattaraugus, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cattaraugus, surveyed 1923

On record in Cattaraugus

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Cattaraugus fell from 1,002 to 960 between 2010 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
20101,002
2020960-42 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Cattaraugus between 1995 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning8
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSOUTH BRANCH
12 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 1995Smoking25 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus 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 Cattaraugus: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
C.H.Richey No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
J.P.Strickland No.3 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cattaraugus in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash 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
May 2014Flash FloodCattaraugus$250,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$14,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000Several reports of trees and wires downed in Cattaraugus.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$10,000no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$8,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2008HailCattaraugus$8,000no account filed
January 2026Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$2,000Trees and powerlines downed in the town of Cattaraugus.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
April 1995HailCattaraugus$2,000no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$1,000A tree and powerlines were down on Leon Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$1,000Tree reported down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCattaraugus$500Tree down on route 353 between 42nd Street and Broadway.
August 2021Heavy RainCattaraugus-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
August 2021Heavy RainCattaraugus-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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
Otto2.7 miles16
New Albion3.0 miles15
Snyders Corners3.2 miles15
Five Points4.3 miles16
East Leon4.9 miles15
Persia5.3 miles15
Eddyville5.6 miles16
Wesley5.6 miles15

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 CattaraugusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475930The 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 946066. 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.