Pike, New York
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pike town. It lies in ZIP code area 14130. It stands on Bush Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pike quadrangle. 298 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,545 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1984The 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.


On record in Pike
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 1 record
First Free Will Baptist Church of Pikelisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresPike fell from 371 to 298 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 371 | |
| 2020 | 298 | -73 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Portage quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Pike quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Pike quadrangle1:31680
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Pike quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
44 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Pike between 2002 and 2018, burning about 42 acres in total. 3 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 | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2013 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 May 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pike: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Salt Well | Salt | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pike in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| December 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $10,000 | Emergency Managment reported tree damage in Pike. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Pike | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $8,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $1,000 | Trees were downed in the area. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Pike | - | Video showing hail about the size of golf balls. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Pike | - | Public photos of large hail, relayed by WIVB-TV. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Pike | - | Video showing numerous large hail with at least an inch diameter falling in Pike. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griffith Corners | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| East Koy | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Lamont | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Wing | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hardys | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Howes | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Bliss | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Gainesville | 5.9 miles | 17 |
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 Pike | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q10750068 | 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 960384. 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.








