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Martinsville, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Tonawanda City. It lies in ZIP code area 14120. It stands on Bull Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tonawanda East quadrangle.

Martinsville within Niagara County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

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.

Topographic sheet of Martinsville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Martinsville, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

395 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Martinsville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 80 started naturally. 45 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/undetermined182
Natural80
Arson/incendiarism45
Smoking43
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martinsville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$15,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds on Sweeney Street.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$10,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$2,000A few trees were downed onto Old Falls Road.

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
Sawyer1.2 miles28
Wurlitzer Park Village1.2 miles28
Hoffman1.5 miles28
North Tonawanda1.8 miles28
Park Village1.8 miles28
Beach Ridge2.5 miles28
Nashville2.5 miles28
Wendelville3.7 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 956602. 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.

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.