Redbird, New York

19 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 14782. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ellery Center quadrangle.

Redbird 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 Redbird, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Redbird, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1904 USGS Chautaqua quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1904 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Ellery Center quadrangle1:24000, 5 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

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Redbird between 1995 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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	24
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2004	Smoking	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
14 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 June 2013	Natural	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

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Redbird: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas. 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
	Gerry Homes No.1 Well	Salt, Natural Gas	Prospect

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
South Stockton	1.3 miles	19
Towerville	1.5 miles	19
Sinclairville	3.2 miles	19
Centralia	3.2 miles	19
Moons	3.7 miles	19
Gerry	3.7 miles	17
Kabob	3.8 miles	19
Ellery Center	4.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972992. 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.