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Sinclairville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Charlotte town. It lies in ZIP code area 14782. The Survey maps it on the Cassadaga quadrangle. 579 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Sinclairville 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 Sinclairville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sinclairville, surveyed 1900

Population over time

2 figures

Sinclairville fell from 588 to 579 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010588
2020579-9 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Sinclairville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2007Debris and open burningunder 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sinclairville: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas. 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
C.M.Estee WellSalt, Natural GasPast Producer
Gerry Homes No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasProspect

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sinclairville in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindSinclairville1 hurt, $50,000no account filed
July 2000Flash FloodSinclairville$50,000no account filed
September 2021Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$10,000A tree was reported to be down onto a mobile home.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$10,000Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$10,000The county emergency manager reported numerous trees down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$10,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$8,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$5,000Thunderstorms developed in a warm, moist, southerly flow of air. One woman suffered minor injuries when lightning struck a tree 10 feet away.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$2,000Trees and wires down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSinclairville$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
February 2026HailSinclairville-no account filed
June 2012HailSinclairville-no account filed

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
Moons2.4 miles19
Charlotte Center3.0 miles16
Redbird3.2 miles19
Kabob3.3 miles19
South Stockton3.3 miles19
Towerville4.3 miles19
Centralia4.7 miles19
Gerry4.9 miles17

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 SinclairvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458085The 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 965303. 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.