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Lewiston, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lewiston town. It lies in ZIP code area 14092. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston quadrangle. 2,531 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Lewiston within Niagara County

Then and now

1894 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lewiston, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lewiston, surveyed 1894

On record in Lewiston

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lewiston fell from 2,701 to 2,531 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,701
20202,531-170 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

354 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 354 fires within 5 miles of Lewiston between 2000 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 61 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/undetermined195
Arson/incendiarism61
Natural39
Debris and open burning21
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
8 September 2005Missing 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
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lewiston: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Graphite, Abrasive, Iron. 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
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

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewiston in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2004: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy snow, 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 1999Thunderstorm WindLewiston$55,000no account filed
January 1999Heavy SnowLewiston$40,000no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindLewiston$25,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLewiston$20,000no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodLewiston$15,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLewiston$12,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLewiston$8,000no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindLewiston$5,000A cold front crossed the area accompanied by severe thunderstorms. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Scattered power outages were reported throughout the county.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLewiston$5,000no account filed

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
Lewiston Heights0.6 miles27
Riverside Manors1.1 miles27
Rumsey Ridge1.1 miles27
Escarpment1.6 miles27
Stella Niagara2.1 miles27
Glenwood2.1 miles28
Varsity Village2.3 miles27
Model City2.9 miles28

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 LewistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2532289The 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 955257. 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.