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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.

Ellicottville within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1924 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Ellicottville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ellicottville, surveyed 1924

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ellicottville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010376
2020256-120 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

37 since 1995

Regional 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning12
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
22 May 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Great Valley Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2001HailEllicottville$45,000no account filed
January 1999Heavy SnowEllicottville$35,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$15,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Route 242.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds in Ellicottville.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$15,000no account filed
July 1997Flash FloodEllicottville$15,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$12,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$12,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1998HailEllicottville$12,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$10,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$10,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2006HailEllicottville$10,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$10,000no account filed
June 1998HailEllicottville$10,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$5,000Multiple reports of trees downed in Ellicottville.
June 2008HailEllicottville$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$5,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$3,000Route 242 was closed due to downed powerlines.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$2,000Trees and wires downed.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$2,000Multiple trees were reported down.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$2,000Trees were reported down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEllicottville$500Tree downed due to thunderstorms winds.
September 2022Flash FloodEllicottville-Flooding closed northbound Route 219 at Clark Road.
June 2021Flash FloodEllicottville-Route 219 flooded and closed in front of the Dollar General.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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
Orlando3.1 miles13
Great Valley4.6 miles19
Ashford4.6 miles12
Sugartown4.9 miles20
Little Rock City5.0 miles19
Maples5.2 miles13
Plato5.3 miles13
Peth5.6 miles19

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 EllicottvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460698The 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.