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Dewittville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chautauqua town. It lies in ZIP code area 14728. It stands on Dewittville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chautauqua quadrangle. It stands 1,325 feet above sea level.

Dewittville 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 Dewittville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Dewittville, surveyed 1904

On record in Dewittville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

75 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Dewittville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
25 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
16 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dewittville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindDewittville$10,000no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindDewittville$1,000A tree and wires were down across Route 430.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindDewittville$1,000A tree and wires were down at Thum Road and Bayview Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindDewittville$500A large conifer tree was down across both lanes of Route 430.

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
Shorelands1.4 miles17
Wooglin1.4 miles18
Chedwel1.7 miles17
Pleasantville1.7 miles18
Chautauqua2.3 miles17
Wahmeda2.3 miles17
Hartfield2.4 miles18
Cottage Park2.5 miles17

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 Q122593750The 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 975769. 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.

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.