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North Cuba, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cuba town. It lies in ZIP code area 14727. It stands on Tannery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cuba quadrangle.

North Cuba within Allegany County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 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 Cuba, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of North Cuba, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

79 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of North Cuba between 1997 and 2019, burning about 72 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural7
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 338 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 338 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Cuba between 1877 and 1974: 318 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Latta, Ball & King, Ball, G. E. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul.Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul.1877Ch. H. PeckSummit
Specimen of Leptosphaeria coniothyrium (Fuckel) Sacc.Leptosphaeria coniothyrium (Fuckel) Sacc.1921H.S. Guilford
Specimen of Macrosporium ornatissimum Ellis & Barthol.Macrosporium ornatissimum Ellis & Barthol.1941M. F. BarrusFarm west of Belmont
A photograph of the species Sphacelotheca hydropiperis, not of this specimenSphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary1877Peck Ch. H.Summit
A photograph of the species Clavaria fusiformis, not of this specimenClavaria fusiformis Sowerby1885not recordedPeat Moss, Brookton
A photograph of the species Carex pallescens, not of this specimenCarex pallescens L.1895H. H. TaylorMcGrawville. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex swanii, not of this specimenCarex swanii (Fernald) Mack.1895H. TaylorMcGrawville [=possibly New Hudson, in Allegany County, NY.]
A photograph of the species Carex interior, not of this specimenCarex interior L.H.Bailey1896G. T. HastingsSummit
A photograph of the species Glyceria striata, not of this specimenGlyceria striata (Lam.) Hitchc.1896G. T. HastingsSummit.
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898C.F. StoneFriendship
A photograph of the species Alternaria Nees, not of this specimenAlternaria Nees1904LattaFriendship
A photograph of the species Alternaria panax, not of this specimenAlternaria panax Whetzel1910Osner G.MCGRAWVILLE

All 338 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Cuba in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Cuba$1,000A large tree was reported down in New Hudson.
July 2018FloodNorth Cuba$1,000Dutch Hill Road closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Allegany 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
Cuba1.7 miles20
Lyons Corners2.1 miles13
South Cuba2.9 miles20
Black Creek3.4 miles17
Germantown5.7 miles20
Rawson5.8 miles13
Bellville6.9 miles13
Marshall7.0 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122542186The 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 958770. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.