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Portageville, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Genesee Falls town. It lies in ZIP code area 14536. The Survey maps it on the Portageville quadrangle. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Portageville within Wyoming County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

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 Portageville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Portageville, surveyed 1905

On record in Portageville

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

62 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Portageville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Portageville: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Castile Salt Co.WellSaltPast Producer
J.Harding No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Portage Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portageville in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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
March 2007FloodPortageville$25,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindPortageville$25,000no account filed
January 2017FloodPortageville$20,000Genesee River at Portageville crested at 19.73' at 6:45 AM EST on January 13. Flood stage is 19 feet.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindPortageville$8,000no account filed

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
Lamont3.8 miles18
East Koy4.0 miles18
Castile4.2 miles17
Griffith Corners5.0 miles17
Pike6.0 miles17
Silver Springs6.7 miles17
Chace6.7 miles17
Gainesville7.0 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.

Wikipedia article on PortagevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2841412The 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 960982. 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.