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Middleport, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Royalton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14105. The Survey maps it on the Medina quadrangle. 1,729 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Middleport 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 Middleport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Middleport, surveyed 1897

On record in Middleport

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

Middleport fell from 1,840 to 1,729 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
20101,840
20201,729-111 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

88 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Middleport between 2002 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural11
Debris and open burning8
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Missing 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
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2004Naturalunder 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Middleport: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Medina Sandstone Quarry, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rorick Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleport in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMiddleport$10,000The fire service reported wires down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMiddleport$10,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMiddleport$10,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMiddleport$2,000Trees and wires reported down in the Town of Hartland.
July 2020Flash FloodMiddleport-Widespread flash flooding was reported in Middleport, including on Main, Vernon, and State streets.

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
Johnson Creek3.1 miles27
Reynales Basin3.7 miles27
Gilberts Corner4.6 miles27
Royalton Center4.7 miles27
Gasport5.4 miles27
Hartland5.6 miles27
McNalls6.1 miles27
Orangeport6.4 miles27

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 MiddleportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6841834The 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 957150. 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.