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Cherry Creek, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cherry Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 14723. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Creek quadrangle. 409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,311 feet above sea level.

Cherry Creek 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 Cherry Creek, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cherry Creek, surveyed 1900

Population over time

2 figures

Cherry Creek fell from 461 to 409 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
2010461
2020409-52 (-11%)

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

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2013Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 May 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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 Cherry Creek: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas. 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.M.Estee WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
William Marsh No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Creek in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 1994Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$50,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodCherry Creek$35,000no account filed
September 2017Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$12,000The public reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$10,000Reports of several trees, power lines and power poles downed across Cherry Creek.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$10,000Multiple trees and wires were downed in Cherry Creek.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$10,000Spotters reported trees downed in Cherry Creek.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$10,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds were blocking Highway 83.
June 2007HailCherry Creek$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$2,000A large tree and wires were downed on Maple Avenue.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$1,000A large tree and wires were down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek$500A tree was down blocking both directions of Bates Road.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Thornton3.7 miles16
Bates4.1 miles16
Conewango Valley4.2 miles17
Balcom5.2 miles17
Balcom Corners5.2 miles17
Ellington5.4 miles17
Clear Creek5.5 miles17
Hamlet5.5 miles16

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 Cherry CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459847The 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 946509. 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.