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State Line, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Ripley town. It lies in ZIP code area 14775. It lies near Gage Gulf. The Survey maps it on the North East quadrangle.

State Line within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1913 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of State Line, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of State Line, surveyed 1913

Compare 1913 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

43 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of State Line between 2003 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
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
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
1 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2009Missing 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

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names State Line in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindState Line$1,000A telephone pole was downed across Route 20.

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
Ripley3.0 miles15
Wattlesburg3.9 miles19
South Ripley4.0 miles19
East Ripley5.3 miles15
Forsyth6.5 miles15
Lombard6.5 miles15
Shore Haven7.8 miles15
Volusia8.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966272. 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.