Lake Erie Beach, New York
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Evans town. It lies in ZIP code area 14006. It stands on Delaware Creek. The Survey maps it on the Farnham quadrangle. 3,467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1899 to 1986The 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.


Compare 1899 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresLake Erie Beach fell from 3,872 to 3,467 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,872 | |
| 2020 | 3,467 | -405 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1944 USGS Farnham quadrangle1:31680
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Farnham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
148 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Lake Erie Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 23 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 | 71 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 3 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 September 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 2 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lake Erie Beach: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanover Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hanover Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Pioneer | 1.0 miles | 17 | |
| Angola Lake Shore Addition | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Angola-on-the-Lake | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Saint Vencent de Paul Camp | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Angola | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Farnham | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Evans Center | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Camp Lakeland | 3.0 miles | 17 |
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 Lake Erie Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461410 | 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 954911. 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.







