Edgewater, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grand Island town. It lies in ZIP code area 14072. It stands on Gun Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tonawanda West quadrangle.

Edgewater within Erie 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 Edgewater, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Edgewater, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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.

1897 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1900 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1948 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Tonawanda West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Tonawanda West quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Tonawanda West quadrangle1:25000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Tonawanda West quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Tonawanda West quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

542 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 542 fires within 5 miles of Edgewater between 2000 and 2020, burning about 249 acres in total. 101 started naturally. 61 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	277
Natural	101
Arson/incendiarism	61
Smoking	37
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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
Tonawanda	2.4 miles	30
Sour Spring Grove	2.5 miles	30
Sandy Beach	2.7 miles	30
Grandyle Village	4.2 miles	26
Green Acres Valley	5.0 miles	28
Brighton	5.4 miles	25
Ferry Village	5.6 miles	26
Ellwood Park	5.7 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949375. 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.