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Kill Buck, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 14748. It stands on Great Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salamanca quadrangle. It stands 1,407 feet above sea level.

Kill Buck 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 Kill Buck, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kill Buck, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Kill Buck between 1994 and 2017, burning about 121 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2011Missing 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

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kill Buck: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Great Valley Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kill Buck in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2017: 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
May 2014Flash FloodKill Buck$250,000no account filed
January 2017FloodKill Buck$25,000Allegheny River at Salamanca crested at 13.83' at 1:00 AM EST on January 13. Flood stage is 12 feet.

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
Salamanca1.8 miles19
Peth2.7 miles19
Little Rock City3.8 miles19
Carrollton3.8 miles20
South Carrollton3.9 miles20
Great Valley4.5 miles19
Willoughby4.8 miles20
Bradford Junction5.1 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on Kill BuckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740568The 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 954603. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.