Swain, New York

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1916 1986

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.

• 1916 USGS Canaseraga quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1940 USGS Canaseraga quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1964 USGS Canaseraga quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Swain between 1994 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Grove
• Canaseraga
• Garwoods
• Gas Spring
• Burns
• North Almond

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 48 specimens collected within 10 miles of Swain between 1850 and 1970: 35 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BEAUMONT, J, BUSACK, STEPHEN D AND L D BUSACK, C.F. Cook and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Acossus centerensis Lintner, 1877	1882	not recorded	Centre
	Stegonsporium Corda	1926	J.E. Flynn	near Forest Home
	unnamed	1967	D. Mackenzie	S. of Grove
	Arabidopsis lyrata (L.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz	1850	F. H. Severance	Rattlesnake Hill near Ithaca (Prof Dudley on 08/06/1880); Presque Isle, Penn. (04/25/1880)
	Sphagnum subsecundum Nees	1867	not recorded	Centre
	Cycnia oregonensis Stretch	1876	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Phyciodes batesii Reakirt, 1865	1876	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Acronicta albarufa Grote, 1874	1877	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Balsa labecula Grote, 1880	1877	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Hemaris gracilis Grote & Robinson, 1865	1877	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Hemaris thysbe Fabricius, 1775	1877	W.W. Hill
	Morrisonia evicta (Grote, 1873)	1877	J. S. Bailey	Centre

All 48 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swain in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Allegany County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966938. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.