Wahmeda, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chautauqua town. It lies in ZIP code area 14757. The Survey maps it on the Chautauqua quadrangle.

Wahmeda within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wahmeda, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Wahmeda, surveyed 1904

On record in Wahmeda

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 2 records

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

Chautauqua Institution Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.7 miles away
Miller, Lewis, Cottage, Chautauqua InstitutionNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1904 USGS Chautaqua quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1904 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:24000, 3 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

70 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Wahmeda between 1993 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 15 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
16 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2006	Natural	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

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
Chautauqua	0.8 miles	17
Cottage Park	1.6 miles	17
Point Pleasant	1.7 miles	17
Orchard Terrace	1.8 miles	17
Lakeside Park	1.9 miles	17
Chedwel	2.3 miles	17
Prendergast Point	2.3 miles	17
Shorelands	2.3 miles	17

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 Q122546449

The 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 968641. 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.