Niagara Falls, New York

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1995

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 12 of 39 shown

• Adams Power Plant Transformer HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975
• Niagara ReservationNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic Districtlisted 2010
• Deveaux School Historic Districtlisted 1974
• First Presbyterian Churchlisted 2014
• First Presbyterian Manselisted 2012
• First Unitarian Universalist Church of Niagaralisted 2007
• Former Niagara Falls High Schoollisted 2002
• Holley-Rankine Houselisted 1979
• Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church Complexlisted 2010
• Jefferson Apartment Buildinglisted 2005
• James G. Marshall Houselisted 2004

Every listing in Niagara County

Niagara Falls fell from 50,193 to 48,671 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.

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.

• 1894 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1901 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1949 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:25000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 626 fires within 5 miles of Niagara Falls between 2000 and 2020, burning about 303 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 80 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• La Salle
• Lewiston Heights
• Pletchers Corners
• Varsity Village
• Lewiston
• Bergholtz

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Niagara Falls: 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Niagara Falls in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970406. 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.