Rushford, 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 Freedom quadrangle1:24000, 3 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 58 fires within 5 miles of Rushford between 1999 and 2019, burning about 51 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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:

• Balcom Beach
• Hardy Corners
• Hillcrest
• Fairview
• McGrawville
• Belfast

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 200 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rushford between 1860 and 1974: 130 Animalia, 61 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 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
	Coleosporium Lév., 1847	1936	T.B. Rundle
	Septoria convolvuli Desm.	1939	M. F. Barrus	Smith Bros. Farm
	Wynnea americana Thaxt.	1967	G. M. Smith	Near Letchworth
	Leucichthys Dybowski, 1874	1860	C. Heacox	Caneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
	Acronicta albarufa Grote, 1874	1877	Lintner	Center
	Acronicta tritona Hübner, 1818	1877	Lintner	Center
	Epiglaea decliva Grote, 1874	1877	not recorded	Center
	Lithophane amanda Smith, 1900	1877	Lintner	Center
	Lithophane querquera Grote, 1874	1877	Hill, W.W.	Center
	Lithophane semiusta Grote, 1874	1877	Lintner	Center
	Lithophane tepida Grote, 1874	1877	Hill, W.W.	Center
	Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1885	Charles C. Cook	Centerville

All 200 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rushford: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rushford in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash 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.

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 963104. 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.

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.