Colegrave, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wales town. It lies in ZIP code area 14139. It sits by Mossy Point. The Survey maps it on the Holland quadrangle.

Colegrave within Erie County

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Colegrave, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Colegrave, surveyed 1925

Compare 1925 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1925 USGS Springville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1955 USGS Holland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Holland quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

137 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Colegrave between 2003 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined	83
Natural	19
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Blakeley	2.1 miles	15
South Wales	2.2 miles	15
Wales Center	2.6 miles	19
Wales Hollow	3.5 miles	15
Porterville	3.7 miles	19
East Aurora	3.8 miles	19
Billington Heights	5.0 miles	21
East Elma	5.2 miles	19

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 Q122550225

The 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 972333. 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.