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Stella Niagara, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lewiston town. It lies in ZIP code area 14174. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston quadrangle. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Stella Niagara within Niagara County

Then and now

1894 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stella Niagara, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Stella Niagara, surveyed 1894

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

162 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Stella Niagara between 2000 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined96
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural17
Debris and open burning12
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 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 Niagara County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stella Niagara in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 3 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindStella Niagara$10,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindStella Niagara$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStella Niagara$500A tree was downed onto the Niagara Scenic Parkway by Pletcher Road.

Every storm recorded in Niagara 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
Riverside Manors1.2 miles27
Collingwood Estates1.9 miles27
Lewiston2.1 miles27
Youngstown Estates2.4 miles27
Blairville2.6 miles27
Lewiston Heights2.6 miles27
Rumsey Ridge2.8 miles27
Escarpment3.0 miles27

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.

Wikipedia article on Stella NiagaraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740538The 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 966344. 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.