Rawson, New York

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1924 1986

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.

• 1924 USGS Franklinville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1942 USGS Franklinville quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Rawson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Rawson between 1997 and 2018, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hardy Corners
• McGrawville
• Bellville
• Lyons Corners
• Marshall
• Balcom Beach

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 386 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rawson between 1860 and 1974: 325 Animalia, 53 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Ball & King, Ball, G. E. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul.	1877	Ch. H. Peck	Summit
	Leptosphaeria coniothyrium (Fuckel) Sacc.	1921	H.S. Guilford
	Coleosporium Lév., 1847	1936	T.B. Rundle
	Leucichthys Dybowski, 1874	1860	C. Heacox	Caneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
	Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary	1877	Peck Ch. H.	Summit
	Carex pallescens L.	1895	H. H. Taylor	McGrawville. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Carex swanii (Fernald) Mack.	1895	H. Taylor	McGrawville [=possibly New Hudson, in Allegany County, NY.]
	Carex interior L.H.Bailey	1896	G. T. Hastings	Summit
	Glyceria striata (Lam.) Hitchc.	1896	G. T. Hastings	Summit.
	Alternaria panax Whetzel	1910	Osner G.	MCGRAWVILLE
	Sclerotinia Fuckel, 1870	1910	Osner G.	MCGRAWVILLE
	Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1926	John Greely	Black Cr. at mouth of T6

All 386 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rawson in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 1 tornado, 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.

Every storm recorded in Allegany County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 962230. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.