Van Buren Point, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Portland town. It lies in ZIP code area 14166. It stands on Little Canadaway Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brocton quadrangle.

Van Buren Point within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Van Buren Point, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Van Buren Point, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1900 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Brocton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

127 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Van Buren Point between 2000 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined	67
Arson/incendiarism	23
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
22 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Van Buren Point: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Allegheny Ludlum/ Dunkirk, N.Y.	Iron	Plant

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Van Buren Bay	0.6 miles	18
Greencrest	0.7 miles	18
Lamberton	2.8 miles	18
Cordova	3.4 miles	19
Crestview Estates	3.8 miles	18
Brocton	4.3 miles	18
Vineyard	4.5 miles	18
Fredonia	4.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968391. 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.