East Ripley, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ripley town. It lies in ZIP code area 14775. The Survey maps it on the Ripley quadrangle.

East Ripley within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

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 Ripley, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of East Ripley, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1899 USGS Westfield quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1954 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000, 2 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

62 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of East Ripley between 2002 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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	37
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
1 August 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 Chautauqua 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
Forsyth	1.2 miles	15
Ripley	2.3 miles	15
Shore Haven	2.6 miles	15
Lombard	3.0 miles	15
Wattlesburg	4.0 miles	19
Volusia	4.5 miles	18
Forest Park	5.0 miles	18
State Line	5.3 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949227. 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.