Onoville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Allegany Reservation. It lies in ZIP code area 14783. It stands on Browns Run. The Survey maps it on the Steamburg quadrangle.

Onoville within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Onoville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Onoville, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1922 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1923 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Steamburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Onoville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	10
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
2 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 May 2017	Arson/incendiarism	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Allegheny National Forest	WEBBS FERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onoville in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Onoville	$300,000	A thunderstorm moving across Cattaraugus county produced a tornado. The tornado initially touched at 650 PM EDT on near Guernsey-Hollow Road in the town of South Valley in the southwest part of the county and moved across the Onoville Marina on Quaker Lake, continuing west across Allegany State Park, lifting near Route 1 in Red House at 710 PM EDT. Most of the property damage from the tornado was within in the Onoville Marina where several boats were overturned. A mobile trailer was also overturned there while several other trailers were pushed off their supports and numerous awnings were destroyed. In Allegany State Park and along Guernsey Hollow Road hundreds of trees were knocked over. Most of the damage occurred in heavily forested areas. There was notable tree damage near the Cain Hollow Campground. The tornado was rated an EF1 with a length of 13 miles and a maximum width of 100 yards.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Onoville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Onoville	$8,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Sawmill Run Road.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Vollentine	5.8 miles	17
Steamburg	6.5 miles	17
Cold Spring	7.2 miles	18
Bowen	7.6 miles	17
Underwood Corner	9.0 miles	16
Randolph	9.3 miles	16
East Randolph	10.1 miles	16
Red House	10.5 miles	18

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 Q122571922

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 972896. 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.

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.