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La Salle, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Niagara Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 14304. It stands on Bergholtz Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tonawanda West quadrangle.

La Salle within Niagara 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 La Salle, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of La Salle, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

786 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 786 fires within 5 miles of La Salle between 2000 and 2020, burning about 382 acres in total. 101 started naturally. 105 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/undetermined394
Arson/incendiarism105
Natural101
Smoking59
Equipment and vehicle use46
Debris and open burning43
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of La Salle: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Zirconium, Chromium, Abrasive. 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
Lead Industries/Niagara Falls, N.Y.ZirconiumUnknown
Niagara Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Niagara St0ne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
SKW Alloys/ Niagara Falls, N.Y.Iron, Manganese, GraphiteProducer
Special Abrasives/Niagara Falls, NyAbrasiveUnknown
Union Carbide/ Niagara Falls, N.Y.Chromium, GraphiteUnknown
Great Lakes Carbon/Niagara Falls NyGraphiteUnknown

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Salle in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 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
January 2014Flash FloodLa Salle$50,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLa Salle$10,000A tree fell on a garage on 80th Street.

Every storm recorded in Niagara 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
Black Creek Village1.0 miles30
Love Canal1.0 miles30
Pletchers Corners3.0 miles30
Walmore3.3 miles30
Bergholtz3.5 miles30
Colonial Village3.6 miles28
Saint Johnsburg4.2 miles30
Niagara Falls4.8 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954850. 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.