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Knowlesville, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ridgeway town. It lies in ZIP code area 14479. The Survey maps it on the Knowlesville quadrangle. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

Knowlesville within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Knowlesville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Knowlesville, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

115 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Knowlesville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism24
Natural14
Smoking8
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Knowlesville: 2 producers. 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
Gravel Pit No 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit No 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this place

6 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knowlesville in 6 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindKnowlesville$100,000A barn was reported to have collapsed on Knowlesville Road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindKnowlesville$10,000Multiple trees down or uprooted from an apple orchard with wires down on Howlett Rd.
July 2020Heavy RainKnowlesville-Rainfall of 2.16 inches was reported in less than three hours.
July 2020Heavy RainKnowlesville-Total rainfall of 4.21 inches reported with 3.45 inches since 2:20 PM.
July 2020Heavy RainKnowlesville-Rainfall of 5.27 inches reported.
July 2020Flash FloodKnowlesville-Portage Road was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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
Knowlesville Station1.0 miles18
Millville2.5 miles18
Oak Orchard2.5 miles17
West Gaines2.7 miles17
Eagle Harbor Station3.0 miles18
Eagle Harbor3.1 miles17
Medina4.3 miles17
Ridgeway4.5 miles16

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 KnowlesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740548The 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 954790. 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.