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Forest Park, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Westfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 14787. It stands on Chautauqua Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westfield quadrangle.

Forest Park within Chautauqua 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 Forest Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Forest Park, surveyed 1899

On record in Forest Park

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

70 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Forest Park between 2002 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Park in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2012Thunderstorm WindForest Park$12,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindForest Park$2,000Tree downed on wires on State Route 5 in Westfield.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindForest Park$2,000Trees were downed onto Route 5.

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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
Barcelona0.6 miles18
Westfield1.6 miles18
Shore Haven2.4 miles15
Bournes Beach3.4 miles18
Forsyth3.9 miles15
West Portland4.6 miles18
East Ripley5.0 miles15
Volusia5.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950419. 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.