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East Arcade, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Arcade town. It lies in ZIP code area 14009. It stands on Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Bliss quadrangle.

East Arcade within Wyoming 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 East Arcade, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Arcade, surveyed 1923

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.

Fires near this place

58 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of East Arcade between 2002 and 2019, burning about 46 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning18
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 July 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Arcade: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bliss Salt WellSaltPast Producer
K.R.Wilson No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming 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
Eagle2.9 miles15
Arcade4.9 miles15
Bliss4.9 miles15
Curriers5.2 miles15
Punkshire Corners5.8 miles15
Java Center5.9 miles15
Howes6.1 miles17
Smiths Corner6.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122596368The 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 972408. 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.