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Clarence Center, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clarence town. It lies in ZIP code area 14032. The Survey maps it on the Clarence Center quadrangle. 2,605 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Clarence Center within Erie County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clarence Center, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Clarence Center, surveyed 1897

On record in Clarence Center

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

Clarence Center grew from 2,257 to 2,605 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
20102,257
20202,605+348 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

226 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Clarence Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined120
Natural36
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking13
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2001Missing 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

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Clarence Center: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lancaster QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Buffalo Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Lancaster Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Atlas Gypsum Company MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Clarence Center MineGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerSedimentary
Clarence Center Mine & MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
National Gypsum Company MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Clarence Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Clarence Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Genessee PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarence Center in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindClarence Center$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds on Clarence Center Road.
August 2005HailClarence Center$10,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindClarence Center$10,000no account filed
April 2010HailClarence Center$5,000no account filed
July 2009HailClarence Center$5,000no account filed
January 2024FloodClarence Center-Greiner Road closed in Clarence, Route 266 closed in Tonawanda and the Route 324 on-ramp to I-290 closed in Amherst due to flooding.
July 2019Heavy RainClarence Center-Heavy rain fell for one hour and measured 2.72 inches.

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
East Clarence2.7 miles27
Hunts Corners3.0 miles27
East Amherst3.2 miles27
Wolcottsburg3.3 miles27
Clarence3.4 miles19
Swormville3.7 miles27
Harris Hill3.8 miles19
Woodstream Farms4.3 miles27

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 Clarence CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3268649The 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 946736. 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.