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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.

Forestville within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Forestville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Forestville, surveyed 1900

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Forestville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010697
2020704+7 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

104 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined58
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning11
Smoking6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder 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

11 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Flash FloodForestville$250,000no account filed
January 1999Heavy SnowForestville$100,000no account filed
August 2007HailForestville$10,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindForestville$10,000no account filed
October 2018Flash FloodForestville$5,000Widespread street flooding was reported in Forestville.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindForestville$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindForestville$1,000Trees were reported down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindForestville-Spotters report trees downed and barn roof blown off near Straight Road and Zahm Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindForestville-Trained spotter reported tree damage on Center Street in Forestville.
May 2017HailForestville-no account filed
May 2017HailForestville-no account filed

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
Keaches Corners1.8 miles17
Hawkins Corner1.9 miles17
Dennison Corners2.3 miles17
Sheridan3.5 miles17
Hanover Center4.1 miles18
Smith Mills4.2 miles18
Parcells Corners4.3 miles18
Cook Corners4.3 miles19

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 ForestvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956542The 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.