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Point Stockholm, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellery town. It lies in ZIP code area 14712. It stands on Dutch Hollow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lakewood quadrangle.

Point Stockholm within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Point Stockholm, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Point Stockholm, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

267 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Point Stockholm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined132
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use32
Debris and open burning24
Natural23
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2017Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Point Stockholm: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cassadaga Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marsh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Marsh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oak Hill Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Oak Hill Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
W. Lee Bull Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
W. Lee Bull Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Griffiths0.1 miles17
Sheldon Hall0.2 miles17
Greenhurst0.4 miles17
Driftwood0.7 miles17
Sunnyside0.8 miles17
Elmhurst1.3 miles17
Belleview1.3 miles19
Fluvanna1.4 miles17

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 Q122553579The 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 960842. 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.