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East Shelby, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Shelby town. It lies in ZIP code area 14103. The Survey maps it on the Knowlesville quadrangle.

East Shelby within Orleans 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 Shelby, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Shelby, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

73 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of East Shelby between 2001 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Smoking9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2011Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2018Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Shelby in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEast Shelby$15,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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
Millville2.5 miles18
Pine Hill3.1 miles18
Shelby Center3.8 miles17
Burma Woods3.8 miles18
West Barre4.0 miles18
Knowlesville Station4.1 miles18
Medina4.7 miles17
Lakewood Village4.8 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 Q122549459The 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 949243. 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.

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.