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Evans Center, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Evans town. It lies in ZIP code area 14006. It stands on Big Sister Creek. The Survey maps it on the Angola quadrangle.

Evans Center within Erie County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

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 Evans Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Evans Center, surveyed 1899

Compare 1899 against another survey:

On record in Evans Center

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

181 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Evans Center between 2000 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined89
Natural27
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evans Center in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2014Flash FloodEvans Center$50,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEvans Center$15,000no account filed
September 1997Tornado (F0)Evans Center$15,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEvans Center$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEvans Center$2,000Multiple trees downed in the town of Evans.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEvans Center$1,000Trees and wire downed.
February 2019FloodEvans Center$1,000Route 5 was closed in Evans in both directions due to flooding of the Big Sister Creek.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindEvans Center$500A tree was downed.
April 2002HailEvans Center-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Angola-on-the-Lake1.2 miles17
Saint Vencent de Paul Camp1.4 miles17
Angola1.4 miles17
Camp Lakeland1.5 miles17
Jerusalem Corners2.0 miles17
Lake Erie Beach2.9 miles17
Camp Pioneer3.0 miles17
Derby3.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949732. 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.