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South Attica, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Attica town. It lies in ZIP code area 14011. The Survey maps it on the Attica quadrangle.

South Attica within Wyoming County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Attica, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of South Attica, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

55 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of South Attica between 2003 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of South Attica: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J.Mattison WellSaltPast Producer
L.C.Wilkie WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming 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
Dutch Flats1.5 miles16
Attica Center2.2 miles19
Sierks2.9 miles16
Orangeville Center3.1 miles19
Varysburg3.2 miles16
Johnsonburg4.6 miles14
Danley Corners4.9 miles16
Attica5.0 miles16

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 Q122561756The 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 973085. 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.