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Sloan, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cheektowaga town. It lies in ZIP code area 14212. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo NE quadrangle. 3,775 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Sloan within Erie County

Then and now

1894 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sloan, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Sloan, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

On record in Sloan

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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

Sloan grew from 3,661 to 3,775 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
20103,661
20203,775+114 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

1,110 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,110 fires within 5 miles of Sloan between 2000 and 2020, burning about 422 acres in total. 175 started naturally. 129 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/undetermined647
Natural175
Arson/incendiarism129
Smoking85
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sloan: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Limestone, General, Gold. 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
Buffalo Perlite PlantPerlitePlant
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Williams Gold Refin./ Buffalo, N.Y.GoldUnknown
Eastern Limestone OperationStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Federal Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hanna Furnace Corp/ Buffalo, N.Y.IronUnknown
Republic Steel/ Buffalo, N.Y.IronUnknown

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sloan in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Flash FloodSloan$50,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSloan$30,000no account filed
May 2017FloodSloan$15,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindSloan$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds on Bright Street.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSloan$2,000Trees were downed in the City of Buffalo near the intersection of Bailey Ave. and Broadway.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSloan$500A tree was downed on Doat Street near Poplar Avenue.
June 2020Flash FloodSloan-I-90 was flooded at exit 51.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Doyle1.1 miles25
Walden1.4 miles25
Pine Hill1.8 miles25
Winchester2.0 miles25
Cheektowaga2.2 miles25
Forks2.2 miles25
West Seneca3.0 miles25
Gardenville3.2 miles25

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 SloanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458127The 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 965429. 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.