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Newfane, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Newfane town. It lies in ZIP code area 14108. The Survey maps it on the Newfane quadrangle. 3,662 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Newfane 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 Newfane, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Newfane, surveyed 1897

On record in Newfane

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

Newfane fell from 3,822 to 3,662 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
20103,822
20203,662-160 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

100 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Newfane between 2000 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
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
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
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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
6 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newfane in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNewfane$15,000Officials reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindNewfane$15,000no account filed
June 1998HailNewfane$15,000no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindNewfane$15,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindNewfane$11,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindNewfane$10,000The fire service reported trees down on Drake Settlement Road.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindNewfane$10,000The fire service reported trees down on Coomer and Jacques Roads.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindNewfane$10,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindNewfane$10,000Law enforecment reported trees down on Ewings Road.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindNewfane$10,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindNewfane$10,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNewfane$10,000no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindNewfane$8,000Law enforcement and spotters reported trees and wires down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindNewfane$8,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindNewfane$5,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNewfane$500A tree was downed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindNewfane$500A tree was reported down.
July 2023Flash FloodNewfane-Multiple road closures were reported in Newfane due to flooding.

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
Burt2.1 miles22
Coomer2.1 miles22
Corwin2.5 miles22
North Wilson3.1 miles23
Olcott3.5 miles22
Hess Road3.7 miles22
East Wilson4.1 miles27
Ridgewood4.2 miles22

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 NewfaneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461326The 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 958509. 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.