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.
Then and now
1904 to 1986The 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.


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.
Point Chautauqua Historic Districtlisted 1996 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Chautaqua quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1904 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
75 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 19 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 25 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 16 August 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 13 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 13 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dewittville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dewittville | $1,000 | A tree and wires were down across Route 430. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dewittville | $1,000 | A tree and wires were down at Thum Road and Bayview Road. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dewittville | $500 | A large conifer tree was down across both lanes of Route 430. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorelands | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Wooglin | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Chedwel | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Pleasantville | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Chautauqua | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Wahmeda | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Hartfield | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Cottage Park | 2.5 miles | 17 |
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 Q122593750 | 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 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.








