Little Rock City, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 14779. It lies near Lindell Lookout. The Survey maps it on the Salamanca quadrangle.

Little Rock City within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Little Rock City, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Little Rock City, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1900 USGS Salamanca quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1938 USGS Salamanca quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Salamanca quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salamanca quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Little Rock City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 11 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	23
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2020	Natural	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus 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 Little Rock City: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Great Valley Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Rickert Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elkdale	2.4 miles	19
Peth	2.8 miles	19
Salamanca	3.5 miles	19
Kill Buck	3.8 miles	19
Great Valley	3.8 miles	19
Ellicottville	5.0 miles	13
Willoughby	5.4 miles	20
Little Valley	6.0 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122545758

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 972730. 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.