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Wellsville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Florida town. It lies in ZIP code area 12010. It stands on Irish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tribes Hill quadrangle.

Wellsville within Montgomery County

Then and now

1896 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wellsville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Wellsville, surveyed 1896

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

88 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Wellsville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking12
Debris and open burning5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Lost Valley1.9 miles20
Minaville3.0 miles26
Miller Corners3.9 miles25
Glen4.0 miles20
Charleston4.2 miles20
Scotch Bush4.3 miles25
Auriesville4.4 miles20
Fort Hunter4.6 miles20

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 Q49370610The 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 969052. 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.