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South Dansville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dansville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14807. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arkport quadrangle.

South Dansville within Steuben County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 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 Dansville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of South Dansville, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of South Dansville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural7
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1

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
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 July 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 June 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Dansville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
G.H.Losey No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Dansville in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSouth Dansville$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down large trees.

Every storm recorded in Steuben 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
Beachville1.5 miles21
Rogersville3.2 miles24
Perkinsville5.0 miles24
Fremont5.4 miles21
Patchinville5.4 miles22
Arkport5.7 miles21
Haskinville5.7 miles20
Jobs Corner7.1 miles20

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 Q122563864The 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 965734. 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.