Orangeport, New York

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1897 1984

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.

• 1897 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1902 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1905 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1950 USGS Gasport quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Gasport quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Gasport quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Orangeport between 2000 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 36 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Gasport
• Hartland
• McNalls
• Royalton Center
• Dysinger
• Reynales Basin

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Orangeport: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orangeport in 1 storm report in 2014: 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.

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959433. 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.