Mapleton, New York

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.

1897 1984

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.

• 1897 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1900 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1948 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1950 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Mapleton between 2000 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 34 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cambria Center
• Shawnee
• Beach Ridge
• Comstock Corners
• Pekin
• Pendleton Center

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mapleton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Niagara County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 956463. 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.