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Little Valley, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 14755. It lies near Toad Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cattaraugus quadrangle. 1,058 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,598 feet above sea level.

Little Valley within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1923 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 63 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 Valley, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Little Valley, surveyed 1923

On record in Little Valley

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Little Valley fell from 1,143 to 1,058 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
20101,143
20201,058-85 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

18 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Little Valley between 2002 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Smoking1

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 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2020Natural1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
14 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 May 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 April 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

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 Valley: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Little Valley S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rickert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Valley in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLittle Valley$10,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLittle Valley$5,000no account filed
June 1994HailLittle Valley$5,000no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Five Points3.5 miles16
Elkdale3.8 miles19
New Albion5.1 miles15
Eddyville5.8 miles16
Napoli5.9 miles16
Orlando5.9 miles13
Little Rock City6.0 miles19
Cattaraugus6.2 miles16

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 Little ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3111105The 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 955720. 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.