Moons, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stockton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14718. The Survey maps it on the Cassadaga quadrangle.

Moons within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moons, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Moons, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1900 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Cassadaga quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Moons between 1992 and 2019, burning about 56 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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 Moons: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cassadaga Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Longhouse Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kabob	1.0 miles	19
Sinclairville	2.4 miles	19
South Stockton	2.9 miles	19
Centralia	3.2 miles	19
Charlotte Center	3.4 miles	16
Redbird	3.7 miles	19
Burnhams	3.9 miles	19
Stockton	3.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972811. 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.