Independence, New York

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1926 1986

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.

• 1926 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Independence between 1995 and 2019, burning about 63 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fulmer Valley
• Hallsport
• Paynesville
• Whitesville
• Spring Mills
• Andover

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 332 specimens collected within 10 miles of Independence between 1870 and 1973: 312 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hazzard, A. L. Moldenke, A. P. Garber and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Phragmidium subcorticium (Schrank) G.Winter	1925	Elrene Crandall
	Puccinia veratri (DC.) Duby	1931	H. H. Whetzel	Wooded hillside along main highway
	Clitocybe cartilaginea (Bull.) Bres.	1934	W. F. Wilson
	Salix bebbiana Sarg.	1870	A. P. Garber	Andover
	Gloeosporium Desm. & Mont., 1849	1883	A.B. Seymour	Granville.
	Amanita Pers.	1887	Cook, O. F.	Marsh Creek
	Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763	1888	De Alton Saunders	Vandermark Creek
	Spiraea alba Du Roi	1889	De Alton Saunders	Andover
	Polygonum cilinode Michx.	1890	DeAlton Saunders	Independence
	Crataegus punctata Jacq.	1918	Randolph, L.F.	S of Alfred
	Albugo tragopogonis (Pers.) Gray	1920	Shaughnessy, E. T.	Wellsville
	Taphrina sacchari Jenkins	1922	Nye Bernice	Andover

All 332 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Independence in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Allegany County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972647. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.