Footes, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Concord town. It lies in ZIP code area 14069. It stands on Graff Brook. The Survey maps it on the Springville quadrangle.

Footes within Erie County

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Footes, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Footes, surveyed 1925

Compare 1925 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1925 USGS Springville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Springville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Footes between 1995 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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	14
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 June 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 June 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Footes: 2 past producers, 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Henry Jones Well	Salt	Past Producer
John L. Beny Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
John L. Beny Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
East Concord	2.3 miles	14
Glenwood	2.5 miles	14
Fowlerville	4.0 miles	14
Colden	4.6 miles	16
Springville	5.4 miles	14
Concord	5.7 miles	14
Boston	5.8 miles	16
East Boston Hill	6.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972487. 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.