Forestville, New York
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanover town. It lies in ZIP code area 14062. It stands on Tupper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forestville quadrangle. 704 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Forestville
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.
- Levi J. and Frances A. Pierce Houselisted 2022 · 0.2 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresForestville grew from 697 to 704 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 697 | |
| 2020 | 704 | +7 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1941 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Forestville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
104 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Forestville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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 | 58 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 21 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 1 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forestville in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy snow. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Forestville | $250,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Heavy Snow | Forestville | $100,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Forestville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2018 | Flash Flood | Forestville | $5,000 | Widespread street flooding was reported in Forestville. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestville | $2,000 | Trees and wires were downed. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestville | $1,000 | Trees were reported down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestville | - | Spotters report trees downed and barn roof blown off near Straight Road and Zahm Road. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forestville | - | Trained spotter reported tree damage on Center Street in Forestville. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Forestville | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Forestville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keaches Corners | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Hawkins Corner | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Dennison Corners | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Sheridan | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Hanover Center | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Smith Mills | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Parcells Corners | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Cook Corners | 4.3 miles | 19 |
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 Forestville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q956542 | 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 950437. 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.







