Shongo, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Allegany Reservation. It lies in ZIP code area 14779. It stands on Breeds Run. The Survey maps it on the Little Valley quadrangle.

Shongo within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shongo, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Shongo, surveyed 1922

On record in Shongo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Allegany Council Houselisted 2017 · 0.9 miles away

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.

1922 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1923 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Little Valley quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

113 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Shongo between 1994 and 2017, burning about 215 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 26 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	73
Arson/incendiarism	26
Natural	8
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 June 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus 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 Shongo: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	J.W.Sharp No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Red House	2.2 miles	18
Salamanca	3.6 miles	19
Kill Buck	5.3 miles	19
Cold Spring	5.4 miles	18
Elkdale	5.4 miles	19
Little Rock City	6.1 miles	19
South Carrollton	6.6 miles	20
Underwood Corner	6.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973064. 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.