Pleasantville, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chautauqua town. It lies in ZIP code area 14728. The Survey maps it on the Hartfield quadrangle.

Pleasantville 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 Pleasantville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Pleasantville, 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.

1900 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Hartfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Pleasantville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	18
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
16 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasantville in 1 storm report in 2017: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasantville	$12,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dewittville	1.7 miles	17
Wooglin	2.0 miles	18
Shorelands	2.3 miles	17
Hartfield	2.4 miles	18
Waterman Corner	2.8 miles	17
Chedwel	3.1 miles	17
Cottage Park	3.8 miles	17
Point Pleasant	3.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972959. 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.