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Sour Spring Grove, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grand Island town. It lies in ZIP code area 14072. It stands on Twomile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tonawanda West quadrangle.

Sour Spring Grove within Erie County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sour Spring Grove, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Sour Spring Grove, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

485 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 485 fires within 5 miles of Sour Spring Grove between 2000 and 2020, burning about 199 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined252
Natural96
Arson/incendiarism48
Smoking37
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Grandyle Village2.0 miles26
Tonawanda2.3 miles30
Edgewater2.5 miles30
Ferry Village3.2 miles26
Sandy Beach3.6 miles30
Oakfield3.7 miles26
Kenmore4.3 miles25
Ellwood Park4.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122543943The 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 973960. 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.