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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.

North Collins within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The 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.

Topographic sheet of North Collins, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of North Collins, surveyed 1905

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

Population over time

2 figures

North 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,232
20201,247+15 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

116 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkIRVING
28 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lawson Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 1996Thunderstorm WindNorth Collins$20,000no account filed
January 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Collins$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down along US Route 62.
September 2011Flash FloodNorth Collins$12,000no account filed
May 2012HailNorth Collins$10,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Collins$1,000Trees were reported down on Gowanda State Road. All lanes of travel were closed at Shirley Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Collins$500Tree downed on Gowanda State Road.
May 2017HailNorth Collins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Shirley1.9 miles16
Pontiac2.5 miles16
Fenton3.1 miles16
Newtown4.0 miles16
Lawtons4.0 miles16
Brant4.1 miles17
Eden4.6 miles15
Iroquois4.9 miles16

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 CollinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461601The 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.