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Fort Niagara Beach, New York

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Porter town. It lies in ZIP code area 14174. The Survey maps it on the Fort Niagara quadrangle.

Fort Niagara Beach within Niagara County

Then and now

1950 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fort Niagara Beach, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fort Niagara Beach, surveyed 1950

On record in Fort Niagara Beach

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 9 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

49 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Fort Niagara Beach between 2003 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara 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
Youngstown1.6 miles27
Towers Corners1.6 miles9
Youngstown Estates2.2 miles27
Blairville2.6 miles27
Collingwood Estates2.7 miles27
Harrison Grove3.9 miles25
Porter Center4.4 miles28
Tryonville4.5 miles25

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.

Wikidata item Q122566807The 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 950487. 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.