Keaches Corners, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanover town. It lies in ZIP code area 14062. It stands on Tupper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forestville quadrangle.

Keaches Corners within Chautauqua 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 Keaches Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Keaches Corners, surveyed 1900

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.

1900 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1941 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Forestville quadrangle1:24000, 3 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

135 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Keaches Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 20 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	73
Arson/incendiarism	20
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Dennison Corners	0.7 miles	17
Hawkins Corner	1.6 miles	17
Forestville	1.8 miles	17
Hanover Center	2.3 miles	18
Smith Mills	3.0 miles	18
Silver Creek	3.6 miles	18
Sheridan	4.0 miles	17
Parcells Corners	4.2 miles	18

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 Q122594559

The 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 954418. 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.