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Peoria, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Covington town. It lies in ZIP code area 14525. The Survey maps it on the Leicester quadrangle.

Peoria within Wyoming County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Peoria, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Peoria, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Peoria between 2002 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
22 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Peoria: 10 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Old Retsof ShaftHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
C.Johnson No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasUnknown
E.Whitney No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
F.Fagan No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
J.B.Murphy No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
K.Davis No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
C.W.Jeffries No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peoria in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPeoria$1,000Trees down on Lake Leroy Road.

Every storm recorded in Wyoming 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
Paines Corner2.4 miles19
Covington2.8 miles19
Lagrange3.4 miles19
Spragues Corner3.5 miles19
Buffalo Corners4.5 miles19
Pearl Creek4.5 miles19
Burk Hill5.0 miles19
Lambs Corner6.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 960166. 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.