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Glenwood, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Colden town. It lies in ZIP code area 14069. It lies near Hayes Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Springville quadrangle. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Glenwood within Erie County

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glenwood, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Glenwood, surveyed 1925

Compare 1925 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

59 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood between 2002 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning13
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glenwood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Henry Jones WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2013Thunderstorm WindGlenwood$8,000Law enforcement reported trees down in the Town of Concord.
June 2020HailGlenwood-no account filed
May 2012HailGlenwood-no account filed

Every storm 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
Colden2.2 miles16
Footes2.5 miles14
Fowlerville3.3 miles14
East Boston Hill4.2 miles16
Boston4.3 miles16
East Concord4.7 miles14
Patchin5.5 miles16
West Falls5.8 miles16

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 GlenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5569436The 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 951233. 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.

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.