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South Ripley, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ripley town. It lies in ZIP code area 14775. The Survey maps it on the South Ripley quadrangle.

South Ripley within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 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 Ripley, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of South Ripley, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

50 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of South Ripley between 2002 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
16 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
15 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Ripley in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2025Flash FloodSouth Ripley-Water over Irish Road in Ripley due to flash flooding.
June 2021HailSouth Ripley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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
Wattlesburg2.8 miles19
State Line4.0 miles19
Mina4.8 miles19
Ripley5.0 miles15
Findley Lake5.3 miles19
Lombard5.9 miles15
East Ripley6.6 miles15
Slab City6.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965858. 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.

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.