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East Oakfield, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oakfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 14125. The Survey maps it on the Batavia North quadrangle.

East Oakfield within Genesee County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 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 Oakfield, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Oakfield, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

77 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of East Oakfield between 1999 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of East Oakfield: 7 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Oakfield Gypsum Products Corp. MineGypsum-AnhydritePlant
Oakfield MineGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerSedimentary
Oakfield MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Pheonix Gypsum Company MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
U.S. Gypsum Company MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed ShaftGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed ShaftGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed ShaftGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed ShaftsGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Oakfield in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 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
December 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Oakfield$15,000Law enforcement reported downed trees blocking Albion Road.

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Oakfield2.5 miles17
Five Corners2.5 miles17
Langton Corners3.3 miles18
Elba3.5 miles18
Daws4.7 miles18
South Alabama5.0 miles17
Wheatville5.0 miles17
Ridgewood Village5.9 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 Q122555991The 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 949193. 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.

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.