East Elma, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elma town. It lies in ZIP code area 14052. The Survey maps it on the East Aurora quadrangle.

East Elma within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 Elma, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of East Elma, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1905 USGS Depew quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1948 USGS Depew quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS East Aurora quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS East Aurora 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

148 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of East Elma between 2002 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 19 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	83
Natural	23
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2011	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

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
Jamison Road	1.4 miles	19
Billington Heights	2.2 miles	21
Porterville	2.4 miles	19
East Aurora	2.8 miles	19
Elma Center	2.8 miles	21
Marilla	3.2 miles	19
Elma	4.0 miles	21
Wales Center	4.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949064. 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.