Ellicottville, New York
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellicottville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14731. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ellicottville quadrangle. 256 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,549 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1924 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Ellicottville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 5 records
John J. Aiken Houselisted 2013
Bryant Hill Cemeterylisted 2003
Ellicottville Historic Districtlisted 1991
Ellicottville Town Halllisted 1973
Jefferson Street Cemeterylisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresEllicottville fell from 376 to 256 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 376 | |
| 2020 | 256 | -120 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1924 USGS Ellicottville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Ellicottville quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Ellicottville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Ellicottville between 1995 and 2015, burning about 58 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 24 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 May 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 22 May 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ellicottville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Valley Town Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellicottville in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy snow. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Hail | Ellicottville | $45,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Heavy Snow | Ellicottville | $35,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $15,000 | Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Route 242. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds in Ellicottville. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Ellicottville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $12,000 | Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $12,000 | Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Ellicottville | $12,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $10,000 | Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Ellicottville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Ellicottville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $5,000 | Multiple reports of trees downed in Ellicottville. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ellicottville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $3,000 | Route 242 was closed due to downed powerlines. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $2,000 | Trees and wires downed. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $2,000 | Trees and wires were downed. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $2,000 | Multiple trees were reported down. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $2,000 | Trees were reported down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellicottville | $500 | Tree downed due to thunderstorms winds. |
| September 2022 | Flash Flood | Ellicottville | - | Flooding closed northbound Route 219 at Clark Road. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Ellicottville | - | Route 219 flooded and closed in front of the Dollar General. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orlando | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Great Valley | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| Ashford | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Sugartown | 4.9 miles | 20 | |
| Little Rock City | 5.0 miles | 19 | |
| Maples | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Plato | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Peth | 5.6 miles | 19 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Ellicottville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3460698 | The 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 949515. 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.







