Fox, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ashford town. It lies in ZIP code area 14171. It stands on Gooseneck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashford Hollow quadrangle.

Fox within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1924 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1924 USGS Ellicottville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1941 USGS Ellicottville quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Ashford Hollow quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Fox between 2002 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	29
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	THOMAS CORNERS FIRE
21 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus 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
West Valley	2.0 miles	13
Riceville	2.2 miles	13
Ashford Hollow	2.5 miles	15
Plato	4.9 miles	13
Whiteford Hollow	4.9 miles	15
Brooklyn	5.7 miles	15
Bird	6.3 miles	12
East Otto	6.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972504. 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.