Springville, New York

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1925 1984

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 9 records

• Baptist Church of Springville, Thelisted 2017
• Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad Stationlisted 1991
• Citizens National Banklisted 1996
• East Hill Historic Districtlisted 2015
• East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic Districtlisted 2002
• Scobey Power Plant and Damlisted 1996
• US Post Office-Springvillelisted 1989
• West End Historic Districtlisted 2018
• Fiddlers Green Historic Districtlisted 2018

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.

• 1925 USGS Springville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Springville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Springville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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:

• East Concord
• Concord
• Footes
• Morton Corners
• Woodside
• Wyandale

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Springville: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Erie County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springville in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Erie County

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 966106. 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.