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Toll Gate Corner, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Portville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14770. It stands on Oswayo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Portville quadrangle.

Toll Gate Corner within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Toll Gate Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Toll Gate Corner, surveyed 1898

On record in Toll Gate Corner

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Toll Gate Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
14 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionBARNUM
20 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionBORDER
20 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 June 2008Missing 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Toll Gate Corner: 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
Millgrove Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Portville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Mill Grove0.5 miles19
Portville0.9 miles19
Carroll1.5 miles19
Main Settlement1.6 miles19
Bedford Corners2.4 miles19
Westons Mills3.2 miles19
Weston Mills3.9 miles19
Barnum4.2 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122545268The 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 967600. 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.