North Collins, New York
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Collins town. It lies in ZIP code area 14111. It stands on Franklin Gulf. The Survey maps it on the North Collins quadrangle. 1,247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1984The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
On record in North Collins
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 1 record
Gamel Hexadecagon Barnlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Collins grew from 1,232 to 1,247 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,232 | |
| 2020 | 1,247 | +15 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS North Collins quadrangle1:31680
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS North Collins quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
116 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of North Collins between 2000 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | IRVING |
| 28 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Collins: 1 producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawson Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Collins in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Collins | $20,000 | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Collins | $12,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down along US Route 62. |
| September 2011 | Flash Flood | North Collins | $12,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | North Collins | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Collins | $1,000 | Trees were reported down on Gowanda State Road. All lanes of travel were closed at Shirley Road. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Collins | $500 | Tree downed on Gowanda State Road. |
| May 2017 | Hail | North Collins | - | no account filed |
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.
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 North Collins | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461601 | The 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 958754. 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.









