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Clarksburg, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Eden town. It lies in ZIP code area 14057. It stands on Jennings Creek. The Survey maps it on the Langford quadrangle.

Clarksburg within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clarksburg, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Clarksburg, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

74 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Clarksburg between 2000 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
20 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie 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 Clarksburg: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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
Iroquois Gas Corp.Well No.796SaltProspect
Kennedy's Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Langford2.3 miles16
New Oregon3.0 miles16
East Eden3.2 miles18
Eden4.1 miles15
Eden Valley4.6 miles18
Boston5.0 miles16
Patchin5.2 miles16
Shirley5.3 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 ClarksburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5127592The 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 946788. 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.