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Kuckville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Carlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14571. It stands on Syren Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashwood quadrangle.

Kuckville 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 Kuckville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Kuckville, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

53 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Kuckville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined22
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kuckville in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Thunderstorm WindKuckville$1,000A power pole was snapped with wires down on Sunset Beach Road.

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
Lakeside Park0.7 miles17
Lakeside0.8 miles17
Sunset Beach0.8 miles17
Rock Ledge Beach2.4 miles14
Waterport Station2.5 miles14
Toms Landing2.6 miles14
Waterport3.1 miles17
Ashwood3.3 miles17

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 KuckvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28229156The 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 954828. 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.