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Hinsdale, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hinsdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 14743. It stands on Oil Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hinsdale quadrangle.

Hinsdale within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hinsdale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hinsdale, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Hinsdale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 69 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning14
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 June 2000Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 June 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus 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 Hinsdale: 1 producer. All of them 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
William J. Lippert & Son S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinsdale in 17 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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 2016Flash FloodHinsdale$40,000no account filed
May 2004LightningHinsdale$35,000no account filed
June 2013Flash FloodHinsdale$25,000no account filed
June 2013Flash FloodHinsdale$25,000no account filed
December 2006Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$25,000no account filed
January 2010FloodHinsdale$20,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$20,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$15,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$15,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$15,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$10,000Law enforcement reported downed trees blocking several roads.
June 2012Flash FloodHinsdale$10,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$10,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$10,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$8,000no account filed
July 2018Flash FloodHinsdale$5,000Flooding along Union Valley Road and Windfall Road in Olean. A bridge also washed out on Union Valley Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$1,000Trees and wires were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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
Maplehurst0.9 miles19
Haskell Flats3.6 miles20
Haydenville3.9 miles19
Baldwin Heights5.1 miles19
Lake View Terrace5.2 miles19
Ischua5.5 miles19
North Olean5.6 miles19
Boardmanville5.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952890. 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.