BlockBefore

Farmersville, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Farmersville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14737. The Survey maps it on the Delevan quadrangle.

Farmersville 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 Farmersville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Farmersville, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

32 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Farmersville between 2003 and 2018, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
24 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmersville in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2000Flash FloodFarmersville$15,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindFarmersville$10,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindFarmersville$5,000no account filed
April 2026Tornado (EF0)Farmersville-NWS storm survey confirmed 80mph EF-0 tornado damage in the Town of Farmersville with a path length of 0.23 mi and width of 75 yds. ||The National Weather Service in Buffalo received a report on Friday evening of storm damage to seasonal properties in the Town of Farmersville in Cattaraugus County that was suspected to be from a tornado. Upon surveying the damage, the NWS storm survey team was able to confirm EF-0 tornado damage over a path length of just below a quarter of a mile with a maximum estimated wind speed of 80 mph.

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
Laidlaw1.8 miles14
Farmersville Station2.9 miles14
Elton5.2 miles14
Machias Junction5.5 miles14
Franklinville5.6 miles13
Lyndon5.8 miles13
Lime Lake6.4 miles14
Machias6.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949916. 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.