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Waterboro, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Poland town. It lies in ZIP code area 14747. It stands on Harris Brook. The Survey maps it on the Kennedy quadrangle.

Waterboro within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Waterboro, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Waterboro, surveyed 1905

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.

Fires near this place

73 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Waterboro between 1997 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural12
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua 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 Waterboro: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Area Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Conewango Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Corbett Hill Gravel Prod PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Girl Scout PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Towns PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tri-James Services PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterboro in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2018: 3 flash 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
September 2017Flash FloodWaterboro$15,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWaterboro$10,000A spotter reported trees down on Dry Brook Road.
June 2018Flash FloodWaterboro-A foot or more of running water was reported over route 394 between Kennedy and Waterboro.
June 2018Flash FloodWaterboro-Leach Hill Road was reported closed near route 394.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Kennedy2.0 miles17
Clear Creek3.4 miles17
Clark3.6 miles17
Ellington3.7 miles17
Poland Center3.8 miles17
Conewango Valley4.8 miles17
Levant6.5 miles17
Ivory7.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973204. 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.