BlockBefore

Delevan, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Yorkshire town. It lies in ZIP code area 14042. It stands on Lime Lake Outlet. The Survey maps it on the Delevan quadrangle. 1,043 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,424 feet above sea level.

Delevan within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1924 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delevan, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Delevan, surveyed 1924

Population over time

2 figures

Delevan fell from 1,089 to 1,043 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,089
20201,043-46 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

89 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Delevan between 2002 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning11
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2016Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
15 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Delevan: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Fred Howe WellSaltPast Producer
K.R.Wilson No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Machias PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rules PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sardinia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spencer and Haley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Spencer and Haley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delevan in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 1993Thunderstorm WindDelevan$50,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindDelevan$35,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds damaging two trailers.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindDelevan$15,000Thunderstorm winds blew siding off a house.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDelevan$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down in Delevan.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindDelevan$15,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDelevan$15,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindDelevan$10,000Several reports of trees and wires downed in Delevan.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindDelevan$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDelevan$8,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDelevan$5,000Numerous trees reported down.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindDelevan$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindDelevan$2,000Trees down on the intersection of McKinstry Road and Block Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDelevan$2,000Trees were down onto power lines.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindDelevan$1,000Trees were reported down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDelevan$500A tree was downed across Delevan Road.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindDelevan-no account filed
May 2017HailDelevan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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
McKinstry Hollow2.5 miles13
Yorkshire2.8 miles15
Lime Lake3.8 miles14
Elton3.8 miles14
Machias4.9 miles14
Sandusky5.1 miles14
Machias Junction5.6 miles14
Laidlaw7.4 miles14

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 DelevanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3453185The 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 948273. 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.