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Molyneaux Corners, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cambria town. It lies in ZIP code area 14094. The Survey maps it on the Cambria quadrangle.

Molyneaux Corners 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 Molyneaux Corners, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Molyneaux Corners, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

87 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Molyneaux Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined51
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1
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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder 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

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Molyneaux Corners in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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
July 2021FloodMolyneaux Corners-Flooding was reported on Green 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
North Ridge1.5 miles27
Streeters Corners1.6 miles27
Warrens Corners2.3 miles27
South Wilson2.3 miles27
Cambria Center2.5 miles27
Hickory Corners2.9 miles27
East Wilson2.9 miles27
Pleasant Corners4.0 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 957496. 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.