Centralia, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stockton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14782. It stands on Bear Lake Outlet. The Survey maps it on the Cassadaga quadrangle.

Centralia within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Centralia, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Centralia, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1900 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Cassadaga quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Centralia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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	25
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	5
Smoking	2
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
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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
South Stockton	2.0 miles	19
Kabob	2.4 miles	19
Redbird	3.2 miles	19
Moons	3.2 miles	19
Waterman Corner	3.4 miles	17
Stockton	4.1 miles	19
Pleasantville	4.3 miles	18
Towerville	4.4 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946326. 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.