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Ellery Center, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellery town. It lies in ZIP code area 14712. The Survey maps it on the Ellery Center quadrangle.

Ellery Center within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ellery Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ellery Center, surveyed 1904

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.

Fires near this place

76 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Ellery Center between 1995 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2017Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkGORDON FIRE
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
18 August 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellery Center in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindEllery Center$15,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindEllery Center$15,000Trees were downed between Ellery Center and Maple Springs.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindEllery Center$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Dutch Hollow Road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindEllery Center$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEllery Center$10,000no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindEllery Center$10,000no account filed
July 1997HailEllery Center$10,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindEllery Center$8,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEllery Center$5,000Multiple reports of the downing of trees and wires.
April 1999HailEllery Center$2,000no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Phillips Mills2.5 miles19
Bayview2.7 miles17
Oriental Park2.7 miles17
Bemus Point2.8 miles17
West Ellery2.8 miles17
Shore Acres2.8 miles17
Colburns3.1 miles19
Willow Brook3.2 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 Q122539958The 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 949511. 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.