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Harrison Grove, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Porter town. It lies in ZIP code area 14174. It stands on Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sixmile Creek quadrangle.

Harrison Grove within Niagara 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 Harrison Grove, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Harrison Grove, surveyed 1894

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

67 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Harrison Grove between 2003 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara 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
Tryonville1.4 miles25
Porter Center2.2 miles28
Uneeda Beach2.6 miles25
Towers Corners2.8 miles9
Fort Niagara Beach3.9 miles9
Ransomville4.2 miles28
Blairville4.2 miles27
Hopkins Beach4.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122559243The 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 952284. 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.