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Connelly Park, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chautauqua Lake unorganized territory. It stands on Ball Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chautauqua quadrangle.

Connelly Park within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Connelly Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Connelly Park, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

110 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Connelly Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined51
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2017Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2015Debris and open burning13 acresNew York Forest RangersGORDON FIRE
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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 Connelly Park: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
W. Lee Bull Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
W. Lee Bull Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Connelly Park in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindConnelly Park$10,000Several utility poles snapped or blown over on Butts Road.

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
Quigley Park0.5 miles17
Hadley Bay0.5 miles17
Stow1.0 miles17
Shore Acres1.1 miles17
Oriental Park1.1 miles17
Long View1.3 miles16
Bemus Point1.3 miles17
Phillips Mills1.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947304. 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.