Wattlesburg, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ripley town. It lies in ZIP code area 14775. The Survey maps it on the South Ripley quadrangle.

Wattlesburg 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 Wattlesburg, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Wattlesburg, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1905 USGS Clymer quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1939 USGS Clymer quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1941 USGS Clymer quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS South Ripley 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

52 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Wattlesburg between 2002 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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	32
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
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
27 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
16 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2011	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

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
South Ripley	2.8 miles	19
Ripley	3.0 miles	15
Lombard	3.2 miles	15
State Line	3.9 miles	19
East Ripley	4.0 miles	15
Forsyth	4.9 miles	15
Volusia	5.0 miles	18
Summerdale	6.3 miles	19

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 Q122548390

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 968933. 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.