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Nashville, New York

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

Nashville 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 Nashville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Nashville, 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

321 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Nashville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 58 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/undetermined161
Arson/incendiarism58
Natural55
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2

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/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nashville in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2008HailNashville$20,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNashville$10,000A trained spotter reported trees down on Niagara Falls Boulevard.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNashville$10,000Officials reported telephone poles down.

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
Wurlitzer Park Village1.3 miles28
Sawyer1.4 miles28
Saint Johnsburg1.5 miles30
Beach Ridge2.3 miles28
Hoffman2.3 miles28
Martinsville2.5 miles28
North Tonawanda2.7 miles28
Bergholtz2.8 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 958276. 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.