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Towlesville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Howard town. It lies in ZIP code area 14810. It lies near Bullard Hill. The Survey maps it on the Towlesville quadrangle.

Towlesville within Steuben County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Towlesville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Towlesville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Towlesville between 1997 and 2017, burning about 59 acres in total. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
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 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben 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 Towlesville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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
B.Schultz No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Schoonover PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben 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
Howard3.5 miles21
Buena Vista3.6 miles21
Knight Settlement4.1 miles17
Buck Settlement4.2 miles17
Kanona5.5 miles18
Avoca5.5 miles19
Unionville5.7 miles18
Browns Crossing5.8 miles20

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 Q122594609The 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 967699. 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.