West Allen, New York

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1986

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.

• 1906 USGS Angelica quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1941 USGS Angelica quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Fillmore quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of West Allen between 1993 and 2018, burning about 113 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Allen Center
• Aristotle
• Birdsall
• Short Tract
• Houghton
• Angelica

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 233 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Allen between 1860 and 1974: 157 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arnold, C. P., Arnold, Charles P., Ball & King and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Acossus centerensis Lintner, 1877	1882	not recorded	Centre
	Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda	1887	Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
	Lejeunea cavifolia (Ehrh.) Lindb.	1887	Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
	Leucichthys Dybowski, 1874	1860	C. Heacox	Caneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
	Sphagnum subsecundum Nees	1867	not recorded	Centre
	Cycnia oregonensis Stretch	1876	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Phyciodes batesii Reakirt, 1865	1876	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Acronicta albarufa Grote, 1874	1877	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Balsa labecula Grote, 1880	1877	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Hemaris gracilis Grote & Robinson, 1865	1877	J. S. Bailey	Centre
	Hemaris thysbe Fabricius, 1775	1877	W.W. Hill
	Morrisonia evicta (Grote, 1873)	1877	J. S. Bailey	Centre

All 233 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Allen: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Allegany County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973219. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.