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Ischua, New York

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

Ischua 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 Ischua, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ischua, 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Ischua between 1992 and 2019, burning about 54 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
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
16 June 2009Missing 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

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ischua in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Flash FloodIschua$1,000,000no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodIschua$50,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindIschua$45,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindIschua$20,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindIschua$15,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindIschua$15,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindIschua$15,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindIschua$10,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2004Flash FloodIschua$10,000no account filed
July 2008HailIschua$5,000no account filed
August 2021Heavy RainIschua-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.

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
Fitch2.3 miles13
Abbotts4.3 miles13
Lyndon4.7 miles13
Maplehurst4.8 miles19
Hinsdale5.5 miles19
Cadiz6.2 miles13
Humphrey Center6.8 miles20
Franklinville6.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 953809. 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.