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Oakfield, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grand Island town. It lies in ZIP code area 14072. It lies near Beaver Island. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo NW quadrangle.

Oakfield within Erie County

Then and now

1894 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oakfield, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Oakfield, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

On record in Oakfield

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

280 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Oakfield between 2000 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined153
Natural52
Smoking22
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning15
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Ferry Village1.1 miles26
Grandyle Village1.8 miles26
Sheenwater3.0 miles7
Sour Spring Grove3.7 miles30
Kenmore5.2 miles25
Tonawanda5.7 miles30
Sandy Beach5.9 miles30
Soldiers Place5.9 miles25

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 OakfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7073858The 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 973442. 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.