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Clark, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Poland town. It lies in ZIP code area 14747. It stands on Elkins Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ivory quadrangle.

Clark within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clark, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Clark, surveyed 1905

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

76 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Clark between 1997 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clark: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Area Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tri-James Services PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Woodlawn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clark in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindClark$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.

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
Poland Center1.5 miles17
Kennedy2.3 miles17
Waterboro3.6 miles17
Ivory3.7 miles17
Levant4.5 miles17
Falconer5.3 miles17
Frewsburg5.8 miles17
Ellington6.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946742. 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.