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Stockton, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stockton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14784. It stands on Flag Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cassadaga quadrangle.

Stockton within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stockton, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Stockton, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Stockton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural2

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
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stockton: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cassadaga PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Longhouse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockton in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2015Flash FloodStockton$250,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindStockton$100,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindStockton$50,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindStockton$50,000no account filed
November 2017Thunderstorm WindStockton$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindStockton$10,000The county emergency manager reported numerous trees down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSouth Stockton$10,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindStockton$8,000no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodStockton$6,000no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindStockton$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindStockton$1,500Tree downed on road, cable wire across road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindStockton$1,000Multiple reports of trees and wires down were received.

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
Burnhams2.1 miles19
Lily Dale2.9 miles19
Cassadaga3.1 miles19
Kabob3.2 miles19
Moons3.9 miles19
Centralia4.1 miles19
Dean4.2 miles18
South Stockton5.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966476. 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.