South Carrollton, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Allegany Reservation. It lies in ZIP code area 14779. It stands on Leonard Run. The Survey maps it on the Limestone quadrangle.

South Carrollton within Cattaraugus 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 South Carrollton, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of South Carrollton, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1900 USGS Salamanca quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1938 USGS Salamanca quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Salamanca quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Limestone quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of South Carrollton between 1998 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
18 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
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
8 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Carrollton	0.7 miles	20
Riverside Junction	1.9 miles	20
Bradford Junction	1.9 miles	20
Irvine Mills	3.0 miles	20
Kill Buck	3.9 miles	19
South Vandalia	4.0 miles	19
Vandalia	4.4 miles	19
Salamanca	4.7 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973091. 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.