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Hadley Bay, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in North Harmony town. It lies in ZIP code area 14710. It stands on Ball Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chautauqua quadrangle.

Hadley Bay 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 Hadley Bay, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hadley Bay, 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

97 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Hadley Bay between 1995 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2017Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2015Debris and open burning13 acresNew York Forest RangersGORDON FIRE
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkGORDON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hadley Bay: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
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

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
Connelly Park0.5 miles17
Stow0.5 miles17
Quigley Park1.0 miles17
Bemus Point1.0 miles17
Oriental Park1.0 miles17
Shore Acres1.2 miles17
Phillips Mills1.6 miles19
Victoria1.7 miles17

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 Q122570663The 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 951976. 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.