Farmersville Station, 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 14060. The Survey maps it on the Freedom quadrangle. It stands 1,722 feet above sea level.

Farmersville Station 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 Station, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Farmersville Station, 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.

1924 USGS Franklinville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1942 USGS Franklinville quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Freedom quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

43 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Farmersville Station between 2003 and 2018, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 June 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Farmersville Station: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
	Gravel Products Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	T.J.& M.Williams Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Farmersville	2.9 miles	14
Laidlaw	3.3 miles	14
Elton	4.0 miles	14
Freedom	4.3 miles	14
Sandusky	4.9 miles	14
Machias Junction	6.2 miles	14
Lime Lake	6.3 miles	14
Machias	7.1 miles	14

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 Farmersville Station	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740536	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 949917. 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.