Ivory, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Carroll town. It lies in ZIP code area 14738. The Survey maps it on the Ivory quadrangle.

Ivory within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ivory, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Ivory, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1905 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1942 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Ivory quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Ivory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ivory in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ivory	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs and damaged several campers.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Frewsburg	3.4 miles	17
Clark	3.7 miles	17
Poland Center	4.7 miles	17
Dodge	4.8 miles	17
Fentonville	5.1 miles	17
Kennedy	6.0 miles	17
Levant	6.2 miles	17
Falconer	6.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 953865. 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.