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West Perrysburg, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perrysburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 14129. The Survey maps it on the Perrysburg quadrangle.

West Perrysburg within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Perrysburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West Perrysburg, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

56 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of West Perrysburg between 2001 and 2019, burning about 52 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
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
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus 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
Perrysburg2.9 miles18
Versailles3.8 miles16
Cottage3.9 miles18
Dayton5.7 miles15
Gowanda6.0 miles15
Markhams6.0 miles18
South Dayton8.0 miles17
Skunks Corner8.2 miles17

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 Q122593245The 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 973248. 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.