Dutchtown, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Holland town. It lies in ZIP code area 14080. The Survey maps it on the Arcade quadrangle.

Dutchtown within Erie County

Then and now

1923 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dutchtown, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Dutchtown, surveyed 1923

Compare 1923 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.

1923 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1925 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

79 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Dutchtown between 2000 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 10 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2007	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

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dutchtown: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Salt Well	Salt	Prospect

Every working 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
Protection	1.0 miles	15
Holland	3.5 miles	15
Chaffee	3.6 miles	15
Sardinia	5.6 miles	15
South Wales	8.0 miles	15
Wales Hollow	8.5 miles	15
Colegrave	8.9 miles	15
Footes	8.9 miles	14

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 Dutchtown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5317503	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 948875. 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.