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Clover Bank, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hamburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 14075. The Survey maps it on the Eden quadrangle.

Clover Bank 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 Clover Bank, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Clover Bank, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

363 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 363 fires within 5 miles of Clover Bank between 2000 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 50 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/undetermined212
Natural68
Arson/incendiarism50
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Mount Vernon0.5 miles22
Wanakah0.7 miles15
Locksley Park1.2 miles22
Clifton Heights1.6 miles15
Weyer1.9 miles15
Athol Springs2.0 miles25
Carnegie2.4 miles18
Forest Glen2.4 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122546838The 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 946930. 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.