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Sheridan, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sheridan town. It lies in ZIP code area 14135. The Survey maps it on the Forestville quadrangle.

Sheridan within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sheridan, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sheridan, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

203 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Sheridan between 2000 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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/undetermined116
Debris and open burning33
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

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 Sheridan: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allegheny Ludlum/ Dunkirk, N.Y.IronPlant

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2016: 3 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
January 2012Thunderstorm WindSheridan$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindSheridan$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindSheridan$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cook Corners1.3 miles19
Hawkins Corner2.4 miles17
Center Corners2.9 miles18
Forestville3.5 miles17
Keaches Corners4.0 miles17
Reed Corners4.5 miles19
Dennison Corners4.7 miles17
Dunkirk5.2 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965065. 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.

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.