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Wanakah, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hamburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 14075. The Survey maps it on the Eden quadrangle. 3,137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 590 feet above sea level.

Wanakah 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 Wanakah, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Wanakah, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Wanakah fell from 3,199 to 3,137 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
20103,199
20203,137-62 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

339 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 339 fires within 5 miles of Wanakah between 2000 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 47 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/undetermined196
Natural64
Arson/incendiarism47
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wanakah in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 1 hail, 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
May 1998HailWanakah$3,000An isolated thunderstorm came across Lake Erie and dropped 3/4" hail as it came ashore.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWanakah$2,000Several trees were down onto Smith Road in Hamburg.

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
Clover Bank0.7 miles15
Mount Vernon0.9 miles22
Clifton Heights1.0 miles15
Weyer1.4 miles15
Locksley Park1.7 miles22
Pinehurst1.9 miles15
Athol Springs2.5 miles25
Walden Cliffs2.9 miles15

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 WanakahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7967041The 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 968754. 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.

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.