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Riceville, New York

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ashford town. It lies in ZIP code area 14171. It stands on Gooseneck Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Valley quadrangle.

Riceville within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1924 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Riceville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Riceville, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

39 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Riceville between 2002 and 2019, burning about 34 acres in total. None 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2

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
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersTHOMAS CORNERS FIRE
4 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkFOLTS FIRE
23 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riceville in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2017: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Thunderstorm WindRiceville$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds at Beach Tree Road and Highway 240.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRiceville$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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
Fox2.2 miles15
West Valley2.8 miles13
Ashford Hollow4.6 miles15
McKinstry Hollow5.7 miles13
Bird6.5 miles12
Whiteford Hollow6.5 miles15
Machias6.6 miles14
Plato7.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 962458. 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.