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Hartfield, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chautauqua town. It stands on Big Inlet. The Survey maps it on the Hartfield quadrangle.

Hartfield within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hartfield, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hartfield, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

63 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Hartfield between 1993 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
16 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartfield in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
July 1998HailHartfield$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHartfield$2,000Trees and wires were downed in Hartfield.
May 2013Funnel CloudHartfield-no account filed

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
Wooglin1.1 miles18
Shorelands1.3 miles17
Mayville1.9 miles18
Lakeside Park2.3 miles17
Point Pleasant2.3 miles17
Pleasantville2.4 miles18
Cottage Park2.4 miles17
Dewittville2.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952304. 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.

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.