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Greenhurst, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellery town. It lies in ZIP code area 14742. It stands on Dutch Hollow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lakewood quadrangle.

Greenhurst within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenhurst, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Greenhurst, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

287 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Greenhurst between 1993 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 41 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/undetermined143
Arson/incendiarism41
Equipment and vehicle use33
Debris and open burning23
Natural22
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
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 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2017Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Greenhurst: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cassadaga Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marsh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Marsh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oak Hill Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Oak Hill Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
W. Lee Bull Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
W. Lee Bull Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenhurst in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 2 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGreenhurst$50,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenhurst$2,000Trees were down onto Pine Street near Bemus Point.

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
Sheldon Hall0.2 miles17
Point Stockholm0.4 miles17
Sunnyside0.5 miles17
Griffiths0.5 miles17
Elmhurst0.9 miles17
Fluvanna1.0 miles17
Driftwood1.0 miles17
Longview1.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951749. 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.