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Gardenville, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1984. It stands in West Seneca town. It lies in ZIP code area 14224. It stands on Slate Bottom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo SE quadrangle.

Gardenville within Erie County

Then and now

1894 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gardenville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Gardenville, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

1,016 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,016 fires within 5 miles of Gardenville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 384 acres in total. 167 started naturally. 114 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/undetermined588
Natural167
Arson/incendiarism114
Smoking77
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gardenville: 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bethlehem Steel/ Lackawana, N.Y.IronUnknown
Federal Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Erie 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
New Ebenezer0.7 miles21
Winchester1.8 miles25
Ebenezer2.0 miles25
Doyle2.2 miles25
West Seneca2.5 miles25
Bellevue2.6 miles19
East Seneca2.8 miles21
Cheektowaga3.1 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.

Wikipedia article on GardenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5522500The 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 950881. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.