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Summerdale, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chautauqua town. It lies in ZIP code area 14781. The Survey maps it on the Sherman quadrangle.

Summerdale within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Summerdale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Summerdale, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

62 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Summerdale between 1993 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Debris and open burning3
Other causes1
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
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerdale in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSummerdale$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Sherman-Westfield Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSummerdale$10,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSummerdale$1,000A tree was downed onto power lines.

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
Volusia3.0 miles18
Sherman4.0 miles19
Stebbins Corners4.2 miles19
Lombard4.3 miles15
Lakeside Park4.4 miles17
Point Pleasant4.4 miles17
Cottage Park4.4 miles17
Mayville4.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966762. 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.