Waterman Corner, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellery town. It lies in ZIP code area 14728. The Survey maps it on the Chautauqua quadrangle.

Waterman Corner 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 Waterman Corner, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Waterman Corner, surveyed 1904

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

73 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Waterman Corner between 1995 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 10 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	38
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	10
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
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
13 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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
Chedwel	2.1 miles	17
West Ellery	2.2 miles	17
Midway Park	2.3 miles	17
Maple Springs	2.5 miles	17
Dewittville	2.6 miles	17
Pleasantville	2.8 miles	18
Centralia	3.4 miles	19
Willow Brook	3.5 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 Q122572849

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 973206. 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.