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Parcells Corners, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanover town. It lies in ZIP code area 14062. The Survey maps it on the Perrysburg quadrangle.

Parcells Corners within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Parcells Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Parcells Corners, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

71 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Parcells Corners between 2001 and 2019, burning about 54 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning4
Smoking4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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
Nashville1.1 miles18
Balltown2.5 miles18
Smith Mills2.6 miles18
Wango2.7 miles18
Dennison Corners3.7 miles17
Keaches Corners4.2 miles17
Forestville4.3 miles17
Hanover Center4.8 miles18

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 Q122560580The 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 959854. 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.