Sheenwater, New York

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1960 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grand Island town. It lies in ZIP code area 14072. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo NW OE W quadrangle.

Sheenwater within Erie County

Then and now

1960 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sheenwater, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Sheenwater, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

82 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Sheenwater between 2000 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 1 was 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	31
Natural	19
Debris and open burning	13
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie 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
Oakfield	3.0 miles	26
Grandyle Village	3.2 miles	26
Ferry Village	4.0 miles	26
Sour Spring Grove	5.1 miles	30
Sandy Beach	5.2 miles	30
Edgewater	6.6 miles	30
Tonawanda	7.4 miles	30
Kenmore	8.0 miles	25

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 Sheenwater	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7492395	The 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 973446. 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.