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Irvine Mills, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Carrollton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14753. It stands on Rice Brook. The Survey maps it on the Limestone quadrangle.

Irvine Mills within Cattaraugus 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 Irvine Mills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Irvine Mills, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

32 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Irvine Mills between 2001 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning1

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 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
13 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irvine Mills in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 tornado. 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 2009Tornado (EF0)Irvine Mills$20,000The thunderstorm that produced a tornado beginning in South Valley continued moving west across Cattaraugus county. It produced another tornado that first touched down at 715 PM EDT on Rice Brook Road in Allegany State Park and continued until lifting at 720 PM EDT at Parkside Drive in Limestone. Most of the damage occurred in heavily forested areas with notable tree damage in the Rice Brook area of the Park. This tornado was ranked an EF1 with a path length of 2.2 miles and a maximum width of 100 yards.

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
Riverside Junction1.1 miles20
Bradford Junction2.3 miles20
Limestone2.6 miles20
South Vandalia2.8 miles19
South Carrollton3.0 miles20
Carrollton3.1 miles20
Chipmunk3.3 miles19
Vandalia3.7 miles19

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 Q122557749The 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 953795. 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.