South Cuba, New York

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1986

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 1 record

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

• McKinney Stables of Empire City Farmslisted 1999 · 0.7 miles away

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.

• 1898 USGS Olean quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1938 USGS Olean quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Olean quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Cuba 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of South Cuba between 2000 and 2019, burning about 64 acres in total. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cuba
• Germantown
• North Cuba
• Lyons Corners
• Black Creek
• West Clarksville

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 302 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Cuba between 1877 and 1974: 289 Animalia, 7 Fungi, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Latta, C.F. Stone, Carl O. Dunbar, Paul Sartenaer and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul.	1877	Ch. H. Peck	Summit
	Leptosphaeria coniothyrium (Fuckel) Sacc.	1921	H.S. Guilford
	Macrosporium ornatissimum Ellis & Barthol.	1941	M. F. Barrus	Farm west of Belmont
	Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary	1877	Peck Ch. H.	Summit
	Clavaria fusiformis Sowerby	1885	not recorded	Peat Moss, Brookton
	Carex interior L.H.Bailey	1896	G. T. Hastings	Summit
	Glyceria striata (Lam.) Hitchc.	1896	G. T. Hastings	Summit.
	Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1898	C.F. Stone	Friendship
	Alternaria Nees	1904	Latta	Friendship
	Gallinula galeata (Lichtenstein & Mhc, 1818)	1915	not recorded	Germantown Twp. Germantown.
	Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1926	John Greely	Black Cr. at mouth of T6
	Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1926	John Greely	Black Cr. at mouth of T6

All 302 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965732. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.