BlockBefore

Town Line, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lancaster town. It lies in ZIP code area 14004. The Survey maps it on the Clarence quadrangle. 2,334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Town Line within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Town Line, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Town Line, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Town Line fell from 2,367 to 2,334 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,367
20202,334-33 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

215 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Town Line between 2000 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined103
Arson/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning25
Natural22
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Town Line: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. 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
F.W.Heist No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasProspect
Genessee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Genessee PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jones Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jones Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lancaster Dredge ESand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Town Line in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2012: 1 flood, 1 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTown Line$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees northeast of Elma.
April 2011FloodTown Line$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Town Line Station0.7 miles19
Dellwood1.8 miles19
Looneyville2.8 miles19
West Alden2.9 miles19
Pavement (historical)3.0 miles19
Alden Center3.2 miles19
East Lancaster3.2 miles19
Sand Ridge3.4 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.

Wikipedia article on Town LineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460097The 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 967704. 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.