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Steamburg, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Coldspring town. It lies in ZIP code area 14772. It lies near Johnny Watt Hill. The Survey maps it on the Steamburg quadrangle.

Steamburg within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Steamburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Steamburg, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

124 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Steamburg between 2003 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined78
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural8
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
27 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Steamburg: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
H.Hotchkiss No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Corbett Hill Gravel Prod PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Girl Scout PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steamburg in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 4 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 2014Thunderstorm WindSteamburg$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSteamburg$1,000Tree limbs and wires down in Steamburg.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSteamburg$500A tree was down near route 280 and I-86 at the Allegany State Park entrance.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSteamburg-Several trees down in Steamburg, including tree a on a house.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus 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
Cold Spring2.2 miles18
Underwood Corner2.8 miles16
East Randolph5.0 miles16
Randolph5.3 miles16
Red House5.4 miles18
Vollentine5.5 miles17
Bowen6.1 miles17
Napoli6.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966312. 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.